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Richard Hall (Estate)
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Book Agent:
Pat Kavanagh
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Richard Hall travelled throughout the Indian Ocean region as an historical writer and journalist. He was born in 1925 and spent part of his boyhood in Australia, was educated at Hastings Grammar School, served in a destroyer in the Royal Navy then went to Oxford University. He worked for the Daily Mail, Times of Zambia, Observer and Financial Times. He died in 1997. |
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EMPIRES OF THE MONSOON |
HARPERCOLLINS (21 Nov 96) |
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Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples. It is this civilization and its destruction at the hands of the West that Richard Hall recreates in this book. Hall's history of the exploration and exploitation by Chinese and Arab travellers, and by the Portuguese, Dutch and British alike is one of brutality, betrayal and colonial ambition. |
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ISBN: 0 00 638083 2 |
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LOVERS ON THE NILE |
HARPERCOLLINS (19 Nov 80) |
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