James A. Oliver

James A. Oliver is an international writer, editor and geographer based in Devonshire with assignments abroad. He is also the author of A Footprint in the Sand (2004; 2008), an epic political comedy inspired by a special assignment at the end of the Cold War, and The Anarchist's Arms (2004) - a stage play set in the Fleet Street of a near-future London.

The Bering Strait Crossing: A 21st century frontier was published worldwide in 2006. In April 2007, James Oliver travelled to Moscow with US associates at the invitation of the Russian Academy of Sciences to discuss the World Link concept with the Bering Strait as the global crossroads. By 2009, these materials had formed the basis for a Discovery Channel documentary on the theme. At the Shanghai World Expo 2010, the Beringia concept was awarded the Grand Prix for innovation.

From 2007-2009, he lived on the Ile Saint Louis in Paris, while working as a writer and editor in support of the Single European Sky project. On his return to England, he developed the script for The Pamphleteers: The Birth of Journalism (2010), which investigates the birth of journalism with profiles of Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift - and Tom Paine. There was freedom of expression in this era, James Oliver reminds the gentle reader, as long as you were prepared to pay for it at the end of a rope.

Strait of Gibraltar: Non Plus Ultra (work-in-progress) is an investigation of the great waterway that links the Atlantic Ocean with the Mediterranean Sea and forms the inter-continental divide between Europe and Africa across the legendary Pillars of Hercules. Publication is scheduled for c. 2023.

James Oliver is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.