Escape Artist: The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson

McAleer, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0198794940 / ISBN 13: 9780198794943

Published by Oxford University Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Escape Artist: The Nine Lives of Harry Perry Robinson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198794940
• ISBN 13: 9780198794943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1753694884.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 47109606
• Signed: 7/28/2025 9:28:04 AM
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Synopsis

The life of Harry Perry Robinson--a born adventurer, a master of reinvention, and the ultimate witness to history. From a stint in the gold mines and helping to elect a US president, to the First World War and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

About the Author

Joseph McAleer's previous books include Popular Reading and Publishing in Britain, 1914-1950 (OUP, 1992), which received the inaugural Longmans History Today Book of the Year Award; Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon (OUP, 1999); and Call of the Atlantic: Jack London's Publishing Odyssey Overseas, 1902-1916 (OUP, 2016). A Connecticut Yankee with a doctorate from Oxford, he has held a variety of interesting jobs, including college professor, administrator of the Hawthornden Castle Literary Institute, corporate PR head, spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church, publisher, and national film critic.