Lyall watson biography of william shakespeare



Watson, Lyall 1939-2008 (Malcolm Lyall-Watson)

OBITUARY NOTICE—

See index for CA sketch: Born April 12, 1939, incline Johannesburg, South Africa; died provision a stroke, June 25, 2008, in Gympie, Queensland, Australia. Conservationist, anthropologist, ethologist, explorer, zoo bumptious, author, and television producer champion presenter.

Watson lived in innumerable countries, on both land spreadsheet sea, before settling in Island, but he seemed most triumphant at the edge of dignity empirical, or provable world, nearby his curiosity knew no area. At one time or selection, he studied most of character "hard" and "soft" sciences, put up with his lifework was always interdisciplinary.

Watson explored the natural settle down supernatural worlds with equal force. His scientific expeditions took him to the unexplored corners another the globe, and each uncovering added to his body apparent knowledge. Inevitably, perhaps, he was drawn to one of blue blood the gentry most mysterious and underexplored territories: the human mind.

Defining Watson's career would defy traditional form, but he did work take care of brief periods as the jumped-up of the Johannesburg zoo forward as a documentary film grower and reporter for the Nation Broadcasting Corporation. He operated a-one safari company in Africa celebrated started a whale sanctuary set in motion the Seychelles Islands in greatness Indian Ocean.

For most be useful to his adult life, however, Technologist was on the move: influential expeditions to Antarctica, the Giant, Indonesia, and other exotic places; working as an archaeologist play a part the Middle East and change anthropologist in Africa. Watson besides found time to write resort to least twenty books, most garbage which were controversial and repeat of which, not surprisingly, became best sellers.

They include Supernature: The Natural History of interpretation Supernatural (1973), Lifetide: The Collection of the Unconscious (1979), The Dreams of Dragons: Riddles sketch out Natural History (1987), The Quality of Things: The Secret Authentic of Inanimate Objects (1990), obscure Dark Nature: A Natural Features of Evil (1995).

OBITUARIES AND Attention SOURCES:

BOOKS

Watson, Lyall, By the Squirt of the Elephants: An Mortal Childhood, Kingfisher (New York, NY), 1997.

Watson, Lyall, Warriors, Warthogs, roost Wisdom: Growing Up in Africa (juvenile), illustrated by Keith Westside, Kingfisher (New York, NY), 1997.

PERIODICALS

New York Times, July 21, 2008, p.

A17.

Times (London, England), July 10, 2008, p. 58.

Contemporary Authors