Don't Boil The Canary: ...and other words of wisdom gleaned from my interrupted life.

From the time Ted Simon set off around the world on his Triumph, at the age of 42, his life has been, literally, an open book. In everything he has written since that journey began no-one has been more forthcoming about his life, his thoughts and feelings, than Ted. Yet almost nothing is known about his life before that journey.

So that his own children - one son, two grandsons - would have a better idea of who he is or was, he began to write an account which, inevitably, grew into a book. T...