Richard Hall

Empires of the Monsoon (Text Only) (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'A triumph: a first class comprehensive narrative of the impact upon the people of the Indian Ocean of those who penetrated it. It is hard to believe that this account of a European epic has any rival.' J.M. ROBERTS, author of the Penguin History of the World

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007547043
• Artikelnr.: 44856727

Autorenporträt

Richard Hall is a distinguished journalist and writer. He was born in 1925 and spent his childhood in Australia and England. During the Second World War he served as a rating in a destroyer before going to Oxford to read English. He spent ten years in Africa as a newspaper editor and foreign correspondent and was the last journalist out of Biafra at the end of the Nigerian Civil War. He is the author of many books including a biography of the explorer Henry Stanley and a history of Zambia. After returning from Africa he became editor of the Observer's colour magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He owns and manages a company called Africa Analysis and lives in Oxfordshire.