Dart Travis was born on the island of Jersey to a French-speaking mother and an English-speaking father, which he claims gave him an early interest in the intrinsic lack of genuine communication between cultures. His mother, Denise Leniece, was an accomplished painter, who was fond of the works of Alexandre Dumas, and Dart said she was only dissuaded from calling Dart's three older siblings Athos, Porthos and Aramis by a delegation from both sides of the family (I don't believe a word of it). Whatever, she insisted on christening her youngest son D'Artagnan. Her Jersey landscapes were too biza...