Collection: Philip Beale

Philip is an adventurer, sailor, writer and motivational speaker. He participated in his first international expedition, Operation Drake from Fiji to Papua New Guinea, in 1979 when he was 18 years old, following which he developed a strong interest in Asian, African and Middle Eastern cultures. In 2008-10 he launched the Phoenician Ship expedition which circumnavigated Africa in a reconstruction of a Phoenician ship, which was followed in 2019-20 by the Phoenicians Before Columbus Expedition—a trans-Atlantic expedition to show that the Phoenicians could have reached the Americas Before Columbus.