 He studied for a year at Oxford University and the Harvard Business School and obtained a doctorate in Tibetan Ethnology from the Sorbonne, Paris.In 1958, at the age of 21 — stranded on the coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico,— he walked down the coast to Belize discovering, on the way, 14 unrecorded Mayan archeological sites.This journey changed his life, and is an account of Quintana Roo State that unveils a world where 'chicleros', 'cocaleros' and Mayan fishermen ruled a vast and mostly unexplored region of North America.