Adventure Chef

This is the authentic biography of Max Maxwell hand whritten by him sometime before he died suicide in Ko Lanta southern Thailand.

LIFE IS WONDERFULL !
I HAVE NO COUNTRY ! NO HOME !
NO FAMILY ! I AM FREE

1940 October 8 born in Bombay, during a devastating cyclone.
1951 Traveled to London where I lived alone and acted as a tourist guide before starting
the first of many boarding schools (where I learned northing ).
1958 Went to art college and was expelled (kicked out ).
1959 Started my own jazz club, and traveled for two weeks with Miles Davis, from
whom I learned NO SMALL TALKS, OR BORING CONVERSATIONS.
1960 Traveled in Switzerland, Provence, and Spain.
1961 Became art director of Queen Magazine London, and started going to New York
and Paris several times a year.
1962 Was highest paid art director in Europe, and offered art directorship ol Look and
Esquire Magazine in New York wich I refused.
1963 Became art director of Vogue Magazine, London.
1964 Returned to Queen Magazine, hung out with the Beatles and all the sixsties
London crowd. Decided I did not want become rich and famous, AVOIDING
THE APATHY AND EMPINESS OF AFFLUENCE.
1965 Retired from Queen, to be a photographer, started living in Spain, travelling
world-wide on assignments of my choice, and was one of the highest paid
photographers in Europe, using Nassau Bahamas as my winter studio location.
1966 3 months photo trip in India and Ceylon.
1968 Had a major photographic exibition at Photokina, Koln, Germany, at the same time
architecturally restoring rural estates in Spain, for fees as high as 50.000 us dollars
was offered a million dollar commission to buy several farms , for a corporation,
which I refused , THAT MUCH MONEY WOULD RUIN MY LIFESTYLE.
1971 Traveled for a year in Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia.
1972 Started living ijn Goa in winter and Kashmir in summer.
1978 Began spending summer in Ladakh and winter in Goa, visited Afghanistan.
1985 Left Goa to windsurf , and live in Boracay island, Philippines.
1987 Started spending a few months in Bali, Hawaii, the Dominican republic, st. Martin
Still based on Boracay island.
1995 Started magical travels in Tibet.
1997 Discovered my paradise island of Ko Lanta, in the Andaman sea, where I spend 5
months a year, then Eastern Tibet and Lhasa, Ladakh 3 months in summer, with
a few weeks in California and Santa Fe.

I BELIEVE THAT POVERTY IS WEALTH AND SOLITUDE GOOD COMPANY
I HAVE NEVER EXPERIENCED FEAR, BOREDOM OR LONELINESS
LIVING IN PRIMITIVE LUXURY THE ENVY OF MILLIONAIRES
20 YEARS WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, ALWAYS FANTASTIC LOCATIONS
SURROUNDED BY THE WONDERS OF NATURE.

MAX MAXWELL

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