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Colin Angus is a Canadian author and adventurer who is the first person to make a self-propelled global circumnavigation.
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Colin Angus

Colin Angus is a leading adventurer, filmmaker and bestselling author of Amazon Extreme, Lost in Mongolia, Beyond the Horizon and Rowed Trip.

He was awarded National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year award for being the first to circle the world exclusively by human power, was listed by Outside Magazine as one of the world’s top 25 bold visionaries and is a Canadian Geographic Fellow.

Colin’s human-powered circumnavigation of the world included travelling 43,000 km in 720 days, rowing across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, trekking and cycling through 16 countries, enduring winter in Siberia and searing heat in the tropics. He is also the first to raft the world’s fifth longest river, the Yenisey, and is one of a handful of teams to successfully raft the Amazon river from source to sea. Colin’s spent years offshore sailing and has rowed thousands of kilometers in waterways around the world.

Colin is an award winning filmmaker whose films have aired around the world on National Geographic television and in film festivals. Some of his awards include Best Adventur

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Colin Angus is a fearless adventurer, bestselling author and Canadian filmmaker. He was awarded National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year award for being the first to circle the world exclusively by human power, and was listed by Outside Magazine as one of the world’s top 25 bold visionaries.

Angus’s success in achieving the seemingly impossible relies on a unique strategy he has developed for increasing human potential. He is the author of five books, and his films have been aired around the world on National Geographic television. More recently, Colin and his wife, Julie Angus, founded Open Ocean Robotics, a world leader in producing uncrewed autonomous boats for research and defense applications. Creating a cutting-edge tech company required the same skills honed on his expeditions – tight teamwork, innovative solutions, and a coordinated strategy to achieve massive goals. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Colin is how unremarkable he is. He describes himself as being below average in sports and having been average in school. “I have ab

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Angus, Colin 1971-

PERSONAL: Born 1971, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Education: Attended University of British Columbia.

ADDRESSES: Home—Canmore, Alberta, Canada. Office—Colin Angus Adventures, 212-2288 West 12th Ave., Vancouver, British Columbia V6K 4R2, Canada. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Sailor and writer.

WRITINGS:

(With Ian Mulgrew) Amazon Extreme: Three Men, aRaft, and the World's Most Dangerous River, Stoddart (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2001, Broadway Books (New York, NY), 2002.

Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River, Broadway (New York, NY), 2003.

Contributor to periodicals, including Cruising World, Globe & Mail, and Comox Valley Free Press. Cocreator of documentary films, including Amazon: Source to Sea and Yenisey: River of Extremes.

SIDELIGHTS: As a teenager, Colin Angus was already planning for life as an adventurer. At the age of nineteen, he bought a twenty-seven-foot sailboat an