William Lindesay OBE was born in Wallasey, UK, in 1956, and studied geography and geology at Liverpool University. His interest in the Great Wall of China started early and in 1987 he made what China”s official Xinhua News Agency described as “the most successful foreign exploration of the Great Wall”. As a Great Wall historian, Lindesay has published several accounts of his explorations and expeditions and initiated campaigns to preserve and protect China”s most famous cultural landmark for which he was awarded an OBE in 2006. Lindesay currently lives in Beijing with his family.
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William Lindesay: The Great Wall in 50 Objects
The culmination of a lifetime’s field work and research, William Lindesay selects fifty artefacts from around the world to tell the story of the Great Wall from the 2nd century BC to the late-20th ce …
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William Lindesay: Wild Wall-The Foundation Years
William Lindesay arrived in red-tape China in 1986 to try to do the impossible - a journey on foot along the entire length of the Great Wall. Wild Wall-The Foundation Years tells the story of hi …
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William Lindesay: Wild Wall-The Jiankou Years
After William Lindesay’s 2, 500 km journey along the Great Wall in 1987 and marriage to ‘Beautiful Jade’, as told in Wild Wall-The Foundation Years, the couple settled in Beijing and Lindesay, born i …
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