David Gilmour

David Gilmour is the author of The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa, which was published in a revised and enlarged edition last year. He has written biographies of Rudyard Kipling and Lord Curzon. (June 2008)

From the Review

June 26, 2008: Garibaldi's Gift

Garibaldi: Citizen of the World by Alfonso Scirocco, translated from the Italian by Allan Cameron

December 6, 2007: The Restless Conqueror

Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal

November 2, 2006: Surprises of the Empire

Edge of Empire: Lives, Culture, and Conquest in the East, 1750–1850 by Maya Jasanoff

June 23, 2005: The Great Victorian Abroad

David Livingstone: Mission and Empire by Andrew Ross

May 13, 2004: Eastward Ho!

The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre

November 7, 2002: Nobs & Nabobs

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire by David Cannadine

April 12, 2001: Little War, Big Mess

Crimea: The Great Crimean War 1854–1856 Trevor Royle

May 25, 2000: The Man Who Would Be Good

The Letters of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 4: 1911-19 edited by Thomas Pinney

February 24, 2000: The Empire's New Clothes

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl E. Meyer, by Shareen Blair Brysac

November 4, 1999: The Ballad of Federico García Lorca

Lorca: A Dream of Life by Leslie Stainton

April 8, 1999: Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton by Mary S. Lovell

October 5, 1995: Adrift in Iberia

The Stone Raft by José Saramago, translated by Giovanni Pontiero

June 11, 1992: Homage to Catalonia

Barcelona by Robert Hughes

Barcelonas by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, translated by Andy Robinson

March 26, 1992: Desert Ruritania

Cities of Salt by Abdelrahman Munif, translated by Peter Theroux

The Trench by Abdelrahman Munif, translated by Peter Theroux

Books by David Gilmour

Curzon (1994)
Cities of Spain (1992)
The Hungry Generations (1991)
The Last Leopard: A Life of Giuseppe Di Lampedusa (1988)
The Transformation of Spain: From Franco to the Constitutional Monarchy (1985)
Lebanon, the Fractured Country (1983)
Lebanon, the Fractured Country (1983)
Dispossessed: The Ordeal of the Palestinians (1982)
Dispossessed: The Ordeal of the Palestinians 1917-1980 (1980)