LONG QUEST: David Spindler on the Great Wall in Jinshanling, China. He has spent more than 830 days exploring the wall on foot. Without formal training or funding, David Spindler has managed to become a leading scholar of the Chinese landmark's history through sheer determination -- and a lot of footwork. Spindler is a Harvard Law School graduate who left his job as a consultant and lived off savings to pursue his grand obsession thousands of miles from his Massachusetts roots. Some day soon, he hopes to publish a book on all he's learned. Spindler has traveled across China and even to Japan to look up arcane, centuries-old texts about the Great Wall. Now he wants to learn Mongolian to study works from the raiders perspective.Friday, November 28, 2008
A man pursuing his dream
LONG QUEST: David Spindler on the Great Wall in Jinshanling, China. He has spent more than 830 days exploring the wall on foot. Without formal training or funding, David Spindler has managed to become a leading scholar of the Chinese landmark's history through sheer determination -- and a lot of footwork. Spindler is a Harvard Law School graduate who left his job as a consultant and lived off savings to pursue his grand obsession thousands of miles from his Massachusetts roots. Some day soon, he hopes to publish a book on all he's learned. Spindler has traveled across China and even to Japan to look up arcane, centuries-old texts about the Great Wall. Now he wants to learn Mongolian to study works from the raiders perspective.
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