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Charles van Onselen is an acclaimed biographer who has been honoured with visiting fellowships at Cambridge, Oxford and Yale. A graduate of Rhodes University, Grahamstown, and St. Antony's College, Oxford, his earlier works on the social history of southern Africa won him, amongst others, the American African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies' Trevor Reese Memorial Prize and the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. He has published extensively in leading historical journals in America, England and France. A Fellow of the Royal Society (S.A.) he has recently been a visiting fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate in literature from Rhodes University. He is currently Research Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
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"The Fox and the Flies is a triumphant achievement" -- Judith Flanders Sunday Times "A fascinating account of the life of a master criminal" Glasgow Herald "A remarkable feat of reclamation... Silver remains shadowy, but readers who would like a Cook's tour of crime in the world's capitals at the turn of the last century could not do better than this book" Daily Mail "A heroic feat of archival research and a major addition to our understanding of the global sex trade" Scotland on Sunday "A triumph of research and persistence" Sunday Telegraph
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- PublisherWalker & Co.
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0224079298
- ISBN 13 9780224079297
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages672
- IllustratorIllus. With Photos
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