Escape Artist

The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson

Escape Artist
Joseph McAleer
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Hardback
h221 x 147mm - 400pg
27 Aug 2020 UK
9780198794943
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The amazing story of Harry Perry Robinson, the British born adventurer whose career as American gold prospector and railroad baron, war correspondent and Times journalist not only unfolds like a Boy's Own adventure, but also involved him in everything from the election of a US President to the discovery of the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
Here is a life out of the ordinary that holds especial interest. * Philip Waller, University of Oxford, author of Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 *
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.
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ISBN-13: 9780198794943
Published: 27 Aug 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 221mm
Width: 147mm
Spine: 37mm
Weight: 506g
Pages: 400

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