Acclaimed British author Simon Winchester, whose latest book "Atlantic" focus in part on the future of the North Atlantic fisheries, is coming to Gloucester.
Winchester worked as a foreign correspondent for most of his early career, although he graduated from Oxford in 1966 with a degree in geology and spent a year working as a geologist in the Ruwenzori Mountains in western Uganda, and on oil rigs in the North Sea, before joining his first newspaper in 1967, according to his publisher, Harper Collins.
His journalistic work, mainly for Britain's The Guardian and The Sunday Times, based him variously in Belfast, Washington, New Delhi, New York, London, and Hong Kong, where he covered such stories as the Ulster crisis, Indo-Pakistan wars, the creation of Bangladesh, the fall of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, and the Watergate affair.
The City Hall presentation will be free and open to the public.
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