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The Classic “John Murray” Travel Collection
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When writing The Golden Oriole Raleigh Trevelyan made five journeys to the Indian sub-continent, including Burma and Afghanistan. He returned to his birthplace, the Andaman Islands, and also stayed at Gilgit in what was northern Kashmir where he spent much of his early childhood. He was a platoon commander at the Anzio Beachhead in the second world war, and later a captain with the military mission to the Italian army in Rome. Many of his books are to do with Italy - he is the author of The Companion Guide to Sicily. His most recent book was a biography of Sir Walter Raleigh; this involved travelling to all the places connected with his distant relative, such as the Orinoco delta, Colombia, Roanoke, Ireland, central France, the Cape Verde Islands and Spain. For forty years he worked in publishing as editor and director. He lives partly in London and partly in Cornwall in a house on the site of a Cluniac cell.
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