Exiles (eBook)

William Atkins (Autor)

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2022 | 1. Auflage
336 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-35300-2 (ISBN)

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A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The ImmeasurableWorld and The Moor. 'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' EDMUND DE WAAL 'Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of colourful tales, beautifully weaving history and travel accounts.' ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature 'A volume for our times.' SARA WHEELER, THE SPECTATOR 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 colonialism in Zululand; and Lev Shternberg, a militant campaigner against Russian tsarism. In Exiles, William Atkins travels to their islands of banishment - Michel's New Caledonia in the South Pacific, Dinuzulu's St Helena in the South Atlantic, and Shternberg's Sakhalin off the Siberian coast - in a bid to understand how exile shaped them and the people among whom they were exiled. In doing so he illuminates the solidarities that emerged between the exiled subject, on the one hand, and the colonised subject, on the other. Rendering these figures and the places they were forced to occupy in shimmering detail, Atkins reveals deeply human truths about displacement, colonialism and what it means to have and to lose a home. Occupying the fertile zone where history, biography and travel writing meet, Exiles is a masterpiece of imaginative empathy. 'A fascinating study of exile and its effects.' OBSERVER '[Atkins] is humane, humble, and empathetic . . . beautiful and moving.' ILYA KAMINSKY, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa 'An incredible, brilliant act of retrieval.' PHILIP HOARE, author of Albert & the Whale 'Thrilling.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A finely crafted and lyrical meditation.' TLS 'Gracefully written . . . Brilliant.' THE ECONOMIST 'Rarely has a book been more timely.' HISTORY TODAY *** Read The Moor and The Immeasureable World for more award-winning writing from William Atkins

William Atkins's first book, The Moor, was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, and his second, The Immeasurable World, won the Stanford Dolman Travel Writing Award. In 2016 he was awarded the British Library Eccles Prize. His journalism and reviews have appeared in Harper's, the Guardian and the New York Times.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: exile, banishment, colonialism, empire, imperialism, nationalism, political imprisonment, refugee, migration, diaspora, deportation, relegation • Footsteps, Richard Holmes, Bruce Chatwin, Eric Newby, Paul Theroux, Cal Flynn, Islands of Abandonment, The Summer Isles, Philip Marsden, Gavin Francis, Island Dreams, Atlas of Remote Islands, Patrick Barkham, travel writing, place writing • global politics, Amnesty International, UNHCR, UNICEF, Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Refugee Action, Refugee Council, Save the Children, White Helmets • Mai Ghoussoub, The Wanderer, Christopher Brennan, No Friend But the Mountanis, Behrouz Boochani, The House of Journalists, Tim Finch, Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Snow, Orham Pamuk, I Saw Ramallah, Muraid Barghuthai, Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri • National Geographic, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Nature, Caught by the River, Countryfile Magazine, Country Life • William Atkins, The Moor, The Immeasurable World, the Wainwright Prize, the Stanford Dolman Travel Writing Prize, the Ondaatje Prize • Zulu Prince Dinuzulu keCetshwayo, St Helena, Napoleon, French anarchist Louise Michel, New Caledonia, Ukranian revolutionary Lev Shternberg, Sakhalin
• ISBN-10: 0-571-35300-2 / 0571353002
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-35300-2 / 9780571353002