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Tim Hannigan – author of George Hayward: Adventure and violent death in the Western Himalayas was born in Penzance, Cornwall. His father, Des Hannigan, is a journalist and travel writer, and Tim Hannigan first visited the high mountains of northern Pakistan at the age of 18 when he accompanied his father on a guidebook-researching trip there. That journey was the starting point for his enduring fascination with the history of Central Asia and the Western Himalayas – a fascination that has taken him back to the region again and again, and that led him through standard histories, academic texts, and finally into the archives of the Royal Geographical Society and the India Office Records.

Tim studied journalism at the University of Gloucestershire, graduating with a First Class Honours degree. When he is not in the UK he is based in Indonesia where he writes regularly on travel, history and culture for the newspapers the Jakarta Post and the Jakarta Globe.  He has also written features for Singapore-based Asian Geographic magazine and various other Southeast Asian publications.

In 2007 he won the Jakarta-based Kabar Panin Bank Writing Competition for the short story 'Pulau Naga'. Bruce Emond, editor of the Jakarta Post’s Weekender Magazine, has described him as 'a truly gifted travel writer'.
 
George Hayward – Adventure and Violent Death in the Western Himalayas is the culmination of a decade of travel and background reading, and the direct product of a year of archive research and four months on the road in Kashmir, Northwest China and Pakistan.