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The Other Exile

The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost

By (author) Abdul Rahman Azzam
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Icon Books, Duxford, United Kingdom
Published: 2nd Aug 2018
Dimensions: w 133mm h 191mm d 30mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN-10: 1785783440
ISBN-13: 9781785783449
Barcode No: 9781785783449
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Synopsis
The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernao 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 only a black cockerel for company. News of Lopes reached the King of Portugal. Picked up by a ship sent especially for him, Lopes so impressed the King, and the Pope in Rome, that he was 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 historical adventure story and a meditation on solitude. It is a story about redemption in one of the darkest periods in Europe and the tale of the haunting relationship between man and wild nature.

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