The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long beforeNapoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade.In 1506 Fernão Lopes, a member of his country's minor nobility,travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam,married a Muslim, fought his former countrymen, and was eventually captured -his nose and hands publicly cut off for treachery. Eventually sailing for home,he jumped ship at St. Helena, becoming the island's first inhabitant, with onlya black cockerel for company.News of Lopes reached the King of Portugal. Picked up by a ship sentespecially for him, Lopes so impressed the King, and the Pope in Rome, that hewas granted one wish. He requested his return to St Helena.Based on brand new research by A R Azzam, author of the acclaimed Saladin (Longman,2007), The Other Exile is at once a historicaladventure story and a meditation on solitude. It is a story about redemption inone of the darkest periods in Europe and the tale of the haunting relationshipbetween man and wild nature.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Abdul Rahman Azzam
EAN: 9781785783449
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 292 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Icon Books
DATE PUBLISHED: 2018-08-02
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GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Book Themes:
Saint Helena, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Biography: historical, political and military, History of other geographical groupings and regions
Abdul Rahman Azzam has a BA and PhD in History from Oxford University. He is the author of Rumi and the Kingdom of Joy (2000) and the bestselling Saladin (published in English in 2007 by Longman), which was selected in Jordan as one of the top one hundred books on Islam.
