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Felipe
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Not only does Felipe
Fernández-Armesto rank as one
of the  world’s most
prominent historians, he is also one of the most creative
and ambitious. He has been likened to Gibbon, Montesquieu, Toynbee,
Braudel,
and A.J.P. Taylor and, according to The Times, “he makes history a smart art.” He is
Prince of
Asturias Professor of History at Tufts University and also holds an
appointment
as Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary, University
of
London. He is a member of the editorial board of the University of
Chicago
Press's History of Cartography, and the editorial committee of Studies
in
Overseas History (Leiden University). He is the author of nineteen
books,
including Columbus
(latest
edition 1996), which was short-listed for the U.K.'s most valuable
literary
prize; Millennium: A History of the Last Thousand Years (Scribner, 1995); Truth:
A History and a Guide for the Perplexed
(Thomas
Dunne Books, 1999); Civilizations (Macmillan, 2000); Food: A History [Near a Thousand Tables in the U.S. and Canada] (Macmillan,
2001); The Americas: A Hemispheric
History (Modern Library, 2003);
and most recently most
recently Pathfinders: a Global History of Exploration (Norton, 2006).
Fernández-Armesto serves on the
Council of the Hakluyt Society and was a longserving Chairman of the
PEN
Literary Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society,
the Royal
Society of Arts, and the Society of Antiquaries and was a Fellow of the
Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social
Sciences.
He was awarded the Caird Medal of the National Maritime Museum (1995),
the John
Carter Brown Medal (1999), and the International
Association of Culinary Professionals Prize (2003). He received
his M.A.
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For more information, contact: Donald
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