John Keay
Author of India: A History
About the Author
John Keay is a historian write, and world-downed South Asia expert. He is the author of nineteen books, including Into India, India Discovered, and China: A History.
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(fl. 1941-2022).
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Works by John Keay
Eccentric Travellers: Excursions with Seven Extraordinary Figures from the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1982) — Author — 61 copies
India: A History Volume II 1 copy
India: A History Volume I 1 copy
The Silk Road 1 copy
Giant Book of Exploration 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1941-09-18
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Barnstaple, Devon, England, UK (birth)
China
Scotland, UK - Education
- Oxford University (Modern History)
Ampleforth College - Occupations
- journalist (The Economist ∙ 1966-1971)
author
broadcaster - Relationships
- Keay, Julia (wife)
Keay, Anna (daughter) - Awards and honors
- Sir Percy Sykes Memorial Medal (2009)
Royal Geographical Society (fellow) - Short biography
- Born in 1941 in Devon, England, Keay was educated at Ampleforth College, York and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a demy (scholar) in Modern History. His tutors included the historian A J P Taylor and the playwright Alan Bennett. He first visited India in 1965 and has been returning there about every two years ever since. After a brief spell as a political correspondent (The Economist), he assisted in the revision of the last edition of John Murray's Handbook to India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka (1975) and wrote Into India, his first book.
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- (fl. 1941-2022).
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Folio Archives 318: The Spice Route by John Keay 2005 in Folio Society Devotees (April 2023)
Keay’s China in Folio Society Devotees (October 2021)
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- Works
- 35
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 4,195
- Popularity
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- ISBNs
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