Pinnock, Don

DON PINNOCK is an associate editor and a natural history columnist for South Africa's Getaway magazine. His life has been somewhat colorful and over the years he has been an electronic engineer, a lecturer in journalism and criminology, a professional yachtsman, explorer, travel writer, photographer and a cable-car operator on the Rock of Gibraltar. He is married to the novelist and poet Patricia Schonstein and they have two children, one an architect, the other studying genetics at the University of Cape Town.