The Man Who Created the Middle East
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (816 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0008121931 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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‘Christopher Sykes produces a warm portrait of his inventive, ebullient grandfather’ Times Literary Supplement‘Christopher Simon Sykes tells this story with gusto… puts a human face on a imperialist adventurer, and in this he succeeds brilliantly. Mark’s fiercely independent spirit shines through’ Spectator‘Sykes shows his grandfather in a clearer light, damaged by parents, bubbling with enthusiasm, deeply in love with his wife, an entertaining father at home, an amusing observer of people in the world – the book is lightened by many of his character sketches’ Observer‘Splendid and rather moving’ Norman Stone, Literary Review‘Christopher Simon Sykes has written a warts-and-all life of an erudite man who did his best to find a pea
Christopher Simon Sykes grew up at Sledmere, and went on to become a journalist, photographer and writer. Christopher Simon Sykes is married with two children and lives in North London.. He has written six and photographed fourteen books, including ‘The National Trust Country House Album’, ‘The Rolling Stones on Tour’ and ‘The Garden at Buckingham Palace’. His work has appeared in ‘Vogue’, ‘House
After the Boer War, he returned to map areas of the Ottoman Empire no cartographer had yet visited. Controversy has raged around it ever since.Sir Mark Sykes was not, however, a blimpish, ignorant Englishman. A passionate traveller, explorer and writer, his life was filled with adventure. At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. This search would dominate the rest of his life. He was unrelenting in his pursuit of peace and worked himself to death to find it, a victim of both exhaustion and the Spanish Flu.Written largely based on the previously undisclosed family letters and illustrated with Sykes' cartoons, this sad story of an experienced, knowledgeable, good-humoured and generous man once considered t