Jahrgang 1967 und Oxford-Absolvent, ist seit 1990 Journalist beim englischen »Daily Telegraph«. Er arbeitete für die Zeitung als Kriegsberichterstatter unter anderem im Irak, Kosovo, in Bosnien und Sierra Leone. Mehrere Jahre war er Afrikakorrespondent mit Sitz in Johannesburg. Inzwischen lebt er als freier Autor mit seiner Frau und zwei Kindern in Kapstadt. »Blood River«, Butchers erstes Buch, stand auf der Shortlist des Samuel-Johnson Prize 2008, erhielt einen der wichtigsten britischen Publikumspreise (Richard & Judy Book Club) und wurde über Nacht zum Bestseller.
11 Ebooks by Tim Butcher
Tim Butcher: Trigger
From the author of Blood River: “A splendid book, part memoir, part history, ” about the teenager who killed Archduke Ferdinand and sparked WWI (Norman Stone, author of World War One). &# …
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€23.17
Tim Butcher: Blood River
A British journalist retraces the legendary 1874 expedition of H. M. Stanley in this “remarkable marriage of travelogue and history” (Max Hastings, author of Armageddon). When  …
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€23.18
Tim Butcher: Blood River
Tim Butcher, Kriegsberichterstatter und Afrikakorrespondent, reist auf den Spuren der Entdecker des 19. Jahrhunderts entlang Afrikas mächtigstem Strom. Allen Warnungen zum Trotz durchmisst er al …
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€9.99
Tim Butcher: Trigger
The most original of First World War centenary books; it is a travel narrative of rare resonance and insight Sunday Times On a summer morning in 1914, a teenage assassin fired the starting gun for mo …
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€9.49
Tim Butcher: Chasing the Devil
For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which sprang many of Africa’s cruellest contemporary icons – c …
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€14.99
Tim Butcher & Xiaolu Guo: Because I am a Girl
Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutrition Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the home Because I am …
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€10.99
Tim Butcher: Blood River
**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist’s daring and adventurous journey.Whe …
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€10.99
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TIM BUTCHERThe silence of the jungle is broken only by the ominous sound of drumming. Life on the river is brutal and unknown threats lurk in the darkness. Marlow’s mission to …
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€6.49
Tim Butcher: Creative Work Beyond Precarity
This book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global creative economy. Developing from the author’s theoreti …
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€25.71
Tim Butcher: Creative Work Beyond Precarity
This book offers an original critical evaluation of how freelance careers can be established and sustained in the increasingly uncertain global creative economy. Developing from the author’s theoreti …
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English
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€25.77
