He later studied literature and philosophy at a university in Buenos Airos in Argentina. After he left school, he met a pirate and was a pirate's apprentice. He ended up in London, England in the late 1960s where he took up rowing.
He was enrolled in the Italian Boy Scouts in 1943. He moved with his mother to Buenos Airos, Argentina.
The only child of an English father and Bulgarian mother. He was born in Rome, Italy where his mother had a family. His father worked in London, England for the BBC.
In 1946, he settled a dispute with a pistol. In 1950, he lit out for the Amazon jungle inspired by Tarzan where they survived as a trapper. In 1957, he attempted suicide when he was attacked by the jaguar.