Protesting against the problems of the world
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Geoff William Shearn was born in North Hampshire, England, in 1942, where he was raised by his grandparents. His mother Betty had died shortly after giving birth, his father William, originally from Canada and deployed to England during World War II, had returned to Canada. Geoff signed up for geography studies at university, but dropped out after the first year, at the age of seventeen. He travelled to Canada and the United States, where he worked as a driver. Upon his return, he worked various odd jobs, such as a Scout leader, or in old people´s homes as a caregiver. For some time he lived in Liverpool and worked at a brewery. He partook in Douglas Scott’s expedition to Turkish Kurdistan as a driver, and then continued eastbound to travel around East Asia on his own for eight months. Once returning to Britain, he became a qualified youth worker and worked for the Nottingham Scout Council for 11 years as an event organizer for its 2500 members. In the 1980s, he tried running a crafts and antique shop and an activity holiday business, but the business failed. The fall of the Iron Curtain provided a good opportunity for Geoff – he moved to Poland and then to Ostrava, where he finally settled, and became an English teacher.
