David L. Rowlands

CYRUS

An Historical Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781462850624
• ISBN-10: 1462850626
• Artikelnr.: 33452163

Autorenporträt

AFTER BECOMING HOMELESS AT THE AGE OF SIXTEEN, DAVID ROWLANDS EVENTUALLY DRIFTED TO LONDON, WHERE HE BECAME A BUSKER, LIVING IN SQUATS DURING THE 1970S, UNTIL HE MET THE WOMAN WHO WAS TO BE HIS WIFE IN "MATILDA'S" FOLK-CLUB IN NOTTING HILL GATE. AFTER HIS SON WAS BORN DAVID DECIDED TO MIGRATE TO AUSTRALIA, WHERE HE WENT BACK TO SCHOOL AND THEN ON TO UNIVERSITY, WHERE HE EVENTUALLY EARNED AN HONORS DEGREE IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY. ALWAYS A KEEN AMATEUR HISTORIAN, "CYRUS" REFLECTS DAVID'S INTEREST IN ANCIENT CULTURES AND DRAWS TOGETHER CERTAIN THEMES WHICH EMERGE FROM HIS ANTHROPOLOGICAL WORK.