Charles Foster
Charles Foster is a writer, barrister, part time judge and a tutor in medical law and ethics at the University of Oxford. He read veterinary medicine and law at the University of Cambridge, researched the comparative anatomy of the Himalayan Hispid hare in London and the immobilization of gazelles in Saudi Arabia, and was a Research Fellow at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. A lot of his life is spent traveling. Recent expeditions include the Danakil Depression, Ethiopia, (studying the water metabolism of camels and mules), the Quirimbas Archipelago in northern Mozambique (collecting baseline ecological data), and many long camel journeys in desert regions, often, and miserably, alone. He is not quite sure why he does this. In 2002 he skied to the North Pole for no particularly good reason. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
He has written, edited, or contributed to about thirty books. The most recent (not including dreary legal ones) are The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin (Hodder, 2009), Wired for God: The biology of religious experience (Hodder, 2009), Choosing Life, Choosing Death (Hart, 2009), Tracking the Ark of the Covenant (Monarch, 2007), The Christmas Mystery (Authentic, 2007) and The Jesus Inquest (Monarch, 2007).
He is married to a long-suffering doctor, Mary. They live in a wild, rambling house in the center of Oxford with their anarchic sons. His website is www.charlesfoster.co.uk