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Mark James Murphy

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Mark James Murphy is an artist, teacher, adventurer and writer. He was born in Sunderland, North-East England in the early 1980s. He has solo travelled extensively throughout the world and in 2017 decided to leave behind his job and apartment in the UK to teach English in Vietnam, South East Asia, for almost five years, describing it as the best moments of his life so far. There he also continued developing his practice as an artist and printmaker, documenting his travels through the medium of linocut. In 2019 he fulfilled a childhood dream when he backpacked for two months throughout the whole of India, ending up in a remote village in the Himalayan foothills. He has played football with local kids in the Sahara desert, lived with Hmong pe ...more

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Travel For As Long As You Wish: The Blueprint For Budget Travel, Backpacking And Escaping The Rat Race

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Lost in Afternoon: Capturing moments in Northern Vietnam

Lost in Afternoon: Capturing moments in Northern Vietnam is a real travel story and a poetic account. Moments in time are just that, but some can live on in memory forever. I first came to Vietnam in September 2017, touching down in the capital city of Hanoi, after my first long haul flight from my […]

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Really nostalgic and informative read about life in southern Spain over a hundred years ago. The author provides a window into exactly how people thought and lived from his own direct experience, after living up in the Sierra Nevada mountains for som ...more
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