Escape Artist: The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson

ISBN-13: 9780198794943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 400 str.

Joseph (Independent Historian) McAleer

Opis

The life of Harry Perry Robinson-a born adventurer, a master of reinvention, and the ultimate witness to history. From a stint in the gold mines and helping to elect a US president, to the First World War and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Recenzje

What McAleer has come up with is a forensic yet readable account of the gifted, personally adventurous but politically conservative Robinson. Dominic Maxwell, The Times

O autorze

Joseph McAleer's previous books include Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 (OUP, 1992), which received the inaugural Longmans/History Today Book of the Year Award; Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon (OUP, 1999); and Call of the Atlantic: Jack London's Publishing Odyssey Overseas, 1902-1916 (OUP, 2016). A Connecticut Yankee with a doctorate from Oxford, he has held a variety of interesting jobs, including college professor, administrator of the Hawthornden Castle Literary Institute, corporate PR head, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church, publisher, and national film critic.