ARGONAUT BOOKS

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author. 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. Reviews Breathtaki...Read More