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Giles Milton Biography

British writer and journalist Giles Milton was born in Buckinghamshire in 1966.  He has contributed articles for most of the British national newspapers as well as many foreign publications, and specializes in the history of travel and exploration. In the course of his researches, he has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Japan and the Far East, and the Americas.

Knowledgeable, insatiably curious and entertaining, Milton locates history's most fascinating—and most overlooked—stories and brings them to life in his books.

He lives in London, where he is a member of the Hakluyt Society, which is dedicated to reprinting the works of explorers and adventurers in scholarly editions, some of which he uses in his research.  He wrote most of Samurai William in the London Library, where he loves the "huge reading room, large Victorian desks and creaking armchairs". At home and while traveling, he is ever on the lookout for new untold stories. Apparently he began researching the life of Sir John Mandeville for his book The Riddle and the Knight after Mandeville’s book Travels "literally fell off the shelf of a Paris bookstore" in which he was browsing.

Bibliography

• Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
• Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World
• The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville
• Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
• White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves.
• Edward Trencom's Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese
• Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922
• According to Arnold: A Novel of Love and Mushrooms
• Call Me Gorgeous
• Zebedee's Zoo
• Wolfram: The Boy Who Went To War

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