 Subsequently, he was a conservator at Canterbury Cathedral Archives and then became Senior Conservator at the Senate House Library of the University of London, from which he retired in 2005.He lives in London, travels widely in south and south-east Asia and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.Moxham's first book was "The Freelander", a novel based on the exploits of a group of idealists trying to establish a commune on Mount Kenya in the 1890s.