- Hardcover: 364 pages
- Publisher: New Barn Books (27 Feb 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0956276717
- ISBN-13: 978-0956276711
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 3.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,934,372 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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For more than 28 years from the inception of the Sunday Telegraph in 1961, Nigel Buxton was the paper's travel editor and columnist. in a colourful narrative of compellingly readable prose, Part One of The Fading Margin takes the reader on a journey of never failing interest from village boy to one of the most sought-after occupations in journalism. Part Two consists of a selection of more than 50 pieces first published in the Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere, including The Spectator and Decanter magazines.
About the Author
Born when the 24th of May was still formally celebrated as Empire Day at his Sussex village school, Nigel Buxton became in unconventional order: grammar and public shoolboy, student at the University of Glasgow, decorated junior officer of field artillery on active service in France and Germany, light aircraft pilot, assistant adjutant in India during the last days of the Raj, ADC to the general commanding Special Force 401 in Iraq, employee of a major oil company, Oxford graduate in history and tutor in South Africa to the son and heir of one of the world s most powerful industrialists. After living and working in Mallorca under the aegis of Robert Graves,he joined the Sunday Telegraph at its inception to spend the next twenty-eight years roaming the world as the paper s innovative columnist and travel editor. Nigel Buxton has been a freelance contributor to numerous publications, including The Spectator, The Times, Decanter and The Traveller in France, belongs to the Circle of Wine Writers, and is a member of the International Consultative Committee for the French National Tourist Office.His previous works have included the Penguin Guide to Travel In Europe (1965); America, published by Cassel in 1979, and Walking in Wine Country, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1993. America was translated into a number of foreign languages and was used at the Department of English of Tokyo University to exemplify excellence in English prose. Walking in Wine Country, the consequence of a 5-year exploration of the vineyards of France, won the Lanson prize for Wine Book of the Year in its year of publication.
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