There was nothing unusual about Alan Pearce – he ate breakfast, he liked golf; perfectly normal.

Rocking the boat wasn’t in a day’s work for Alan Pearce and he liked to keep to a fairly strict schedule in life.

But what happened to Alan Pearce just wasn’t normal, not even nearly normal in fact.

Like the sufferer of a sudden and unannounced illness, Alan Pearce was rather knocked back by a turn of events that eventually led to a sort of personal crisis.

Alan Pearce: adventurer.

Alan Pearce: wanderer and navigator (whether he liked it or not).