Warwick Cairns

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Warwick Cairns
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Born1962
Dagenham, Essex
LanguageEnglish
Alma materKeele University; Yale University
GenreNon-fiction
ChildrenTwo daughters

Warwick Cairns (born 1962) is a British author. His three books include: How to Live Dangerously, About the Size of It, and In Praise of Savagery.

Early life and education[]

Cairns was born in Dagenham, Essex, England. He was educated in English and psychology at Keele University in England and English at Yale University in the United States,[1] where he studied under Professor Harold Bloom.[2]

His first book, About the Size of It (Pan Macmillan, 2007) championed the cause of traditional systems of measurement.[3] His second, How to Live Dangerously (Pan Macmillan, 2008 and St. Martin's Press, 2009) criticised the excessive concern with 'Health & Safety' throughout much of the industrialised world and argued that it is necessary to embrace risk to live life to the full.[4][5] The most frequently-quoted statistic in How to Live Dangerously is described thus by Steven Pinker: "The writer Warwick Cairns calculated that if you wanted your child to be kidnapped and held overnight by a stranger, you'd have to leave the child outside and unattended for 750,000 years unless you live in Detroit."[6] His third book, In Praise of Savagery, tells the story of a 1930s expedition by the British explorer Wilfred Thesiger, and a journey to meet him in a mud hut in Africa towards the end of his life.[7][8]

References[]

  1. ^ "Warwick Cairns". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  2. ^ "Andrew Lownie Literary Agency :: Authors :: Warwick Cairns". Andrew Lownie Literary Agency. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  3. ^ "Gonna take a centi-mental journey". BBC. 19 December 2008. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  4. ^ Fitzgerald, Mary (17 August 2008). "Review: How to Live Dangerously by Warwick Cairns". London: The Observer. Retrieved 15 May 2011.
  5. ^ Jewell, Lisa (19 November 2008). "Live dangerously: it's so much safer". Irish Independent.
  6. ^ "Marcus Gee". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 3 June 2012. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012.
  7. ^ Byrnes, Sholto (17 May 2011). "In Praise of Savagery, By Warwick Cairns". The Independent. London.
  8. ^ "In Praise of Savagery, By Warwick Cairns". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-07-31.

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