Ascension by Duff Hart-Davis
The only history of Ascension Island, one of the strangest places on earth. 800 miles from its nearest neighbour, uninhabited until the British claimed it in 1815, and now of key military and space-watch importance, it is also a marine reserve and a land of giant turtles, tropical forests, bleak mountains of lava and huge seabird colonies.
Duff Hart-Davis joined the Sunday Telegraph on its inception in 1961 and later travelled extensively as a feature reporter in India, Nepal, Turkey, Caribbean, Norway, South Africa, Ascension Island. Shooting trips took him to Siberia, Poland and Hungary. Duff wrote the Country Matters column in the Independent 1986-2001. A distinguished biographer, naturalist and journalist, he is author of 17 non-fiction books on subjects ranging from Hitler's Olympics, the adventurer Peter Fleming, to a history of the mid-Atlantic island of Ascension. He has also had eight novels published. Duff was brought up on a farm in Oxfordshire. He did his National Service in Germany and read Classics at Oxford. He is married with two children and now lives on a farm in the Cotswolds.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781910723326 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910723320 |
| Title | Ascension |
| Author | Duff Hart-Davis |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Merlin Unwin Books |
| Year published | 2016-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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