Name: Captain Gill's Walking Stick: The True Story of the Sinai Murders (en Inglés)
Price: 44650.00 CLP
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Author: Kelly, Saul
ISBN: 9781784533410

portada Captain Gill's Walking Stick: The True Story of the Sinai Murders (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Saul Kelly

Editorial

I. B. Tauris & Company

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.8 x 13.7 x 3.0 cm

Peso

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781784533410

Categorías

Crímenes reales
Espías y servicios secretos
Historia general y del mundo

Captain Gill's Walking Stick: The True Story of the Sinai Murders (en Inglés)

Saul Kelly (Autor) · I. B. Tauris & Company · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Captain Gill's Walking Stick: The True Story of the Sinai Murders (en Inglés)"

At an auction in Edinburgh in 2010, the sale of an old walking stick belonging to a British officer, Captain Gill, shed new light on one of the mysterious crimes of the Victorian era. Captain William Gill and his companions, the noted Arabist Professor Edward Palmer of Cambridge University and a young naval lieutenant, Harold Charrington, were killed in an ambush by Bedouin in the Sinai Desert in 1883. The trio had been tasked with informal diplomacy in the region, specifically to prevent the Arab sheikhs from joining the Egyptian rebels and to secure their non-interference with the Suez Canal. The gruesome murders shocked late-Victorian Britain, and led to pressure from the Queen, Parliament and the Press for the British government to launch a manhunt for the killers in a vast desert area with mountainous terrain. This book traces the story behind the murder of the three men, uncovering the reason for their journey to the desert, the story of the murder itself and the backlash home in England. It shines light on a fascinating, forgotten crime, as well as on early intelligence operations in the Middle East.