伊萨姆巴尔德·威尔金森

1971年生于爱尔兰。自由撰稿人。曾任《每日邮报》驻西班牙记者、驻巴基斯坦记者，法新社驻香港记者。自幼受家庭影响，向往中国、印度、阿尔巴尼亚、非洲。大学毕业后为杂志撰写游记，并深入巴基斯坦游历，最终成书Travels In A Dervish Cloak - a Spectator，获评《伦敦晚旗报》、《每日邮报》和《新政治家》等媒体“年度书籍”。

Isambard Wilkinson was born in 1971. As a young boy in Ireland, he listened to family stories of adventurous botanists and artists, sailors and soldiers who travelled through China and Africa, India and Albania. It fired an urge to roam. After university he worked for Country Life magazine before leaving to travel throughout Pakistan, an ambition curtailed by kidney failure.  After a stretch on dialysis and his first kidney transplant, he became a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph in Spain, and then in Pakistan, where he completed his travels. Pakistan is the subject of his book Travels In A Dervish Cloak - a Spectator, Evening Standard, Daily Mail and New Statesman Book of Year. Following a second transplant, he worked for AFP in Hong Kong and is now a freelance foreign correspondent.