Hindsight is the lowest form of intelligenceβexcept for historians. In this handy collection of Ambeth Ocampoβs βLooking Backβ column pieces, the popular historian digs deep and looks back carefully at events, places and important people who make up the countryβs history.
Looking Back
β Scribed by Norman Douglas
- Publisher
- Reprint Services Corp 2013
- Year
- 1933
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 439
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Author Norman Douglas was born in Austria on December 8, 1868 and was educated in England, Germany, and France. In 1893, he joined the British Foreign Office and worked as a diplomat in Russia and Italy. He left the service in 1896 apparently as the result of an indiscreet love affair. He wrote numerous travel books and his only popular success was the novel South Wind, published in 1917. He died in 1952
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list of illustrations
INDEX
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