Exiles: Three Island Journeys

Author: William Atkins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'One of the best makers of sentences around.' - OLIVIA LAING 'An erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze'. - JOY WILLIAMS This is the story of three unheralded nineteenth-century dissidents, whose lives were profoundly shaped by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to blow strongly today: Louise Michel, a leader of the radical socialist government known as the Paris Commune; Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, an enemy of British...Read more