British-born Tony Burton has graduate degrees from the universities of
Cambridge and London. After three years of teaching in the West Indies,
he moved to Mexico in 1979, subsequently accepting Mexican citizenship.
He now divides his time between writing, editing and directing Odisea Mexico,
a non-profit that organizes academic fieldwork, principally in the earth
sciences (geography, ecology, biology), for high-school and college groups,
and specialist ecotourist excursions for adults.
Tony edits the worldwide subscription newsletter "Lloyds Mexican Economic
Report" and has translated works on Paricutin Volcano, Juan Rulfo and Lake
Chapala. The author of hundreds of original travel and ecotourist articles
and several academic articles on fieldwork techniques and methodology,
published in both English and Spanish, he is the only person ever to have
won ARETUR's "Best of Mexico" travel writing competition on three
separate occasions.
His books include Islands in the Sun: St. Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla (Government
of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, 1977) and "West Mexico: A Traveller's
Treasury" (Editorial Agata, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1993)
For many years Tony lived in Jocotepec, a small town on the shores of Lake Chapala, with
his Canadian wife Gwen, who ran a hearing-aid program for hearing impaired
students, their two bilingual, children and a cranky cat. The family currently resides on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.
British-born Tony Burton has graduate degrees from the universities of Cambridge and London. After three years of teaching in the West Indies, he moved to Mexico in 1979, subsequently accepting Mexican citizenship. He now divides his time between writing, editing and directing Odisea Mexico, a non-profit that organizes academic fieldwork, principally in the earth sciences (geography, ecology, biology), for high-school and college groups, and specialist ecotourist excursions for adults.
