The Other Exile: The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes, the Island of St Helena and the meaning of human solitude by A.R. Azzam, Abdul Rahman Azzam

The Other Exile: The Remarkable Story of Fernão Lopes, the Island of St Helena and the meaning of human solitude

A.R. Azzam, Abdul Rahman Azzam

320 pages • first pub 2017 (view editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
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The first known inhabitant of St Helena – long before Napoleon –  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, ...

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