John Clements was born in 1948 in Watnall, Nottinghamshire, the son of a coal miner. From the age of eight he wanted to be a writer, but the education system thought differently: at eleven he fetched up in the ‘B’ stream of a secondary modern, which he left at fifteen.
By sheer determination, he carried on his education and describes himself as an eleven-plus failure with two master’s degrees. He became an inspiring teacher of the ‘unteachable’—those excluded from mainstream education.
He also wrote articles, stories, educational scripts and books and photographed wildlife and landscapes for books and magazines.
He has lived in a thatched cottage on the edge of Dartmoor for over 50 years.
Through Space and Time in America
A road trip is an exploration of other lives, other places, and a change from the everyday, even when that everyday is an interesting life on the edge of Dartmoor. But sometimes other things call, tempting you away from the lovely silence of the night, a silence broken only by the flapping of the fi...
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