A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author of The ImmeasurableWorld and The Moor.
''Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.''
EDMUND DE WAAL
''Atkins spins a marvellous tapestry of colourful tales, beautifully weaving history and travel accounts.''
ANDREA WULF, author of The Invention of Nature
''A volume for our times.''
SARA WHEELER, THE SPECTATOR
''A fascinating study of exile and its effects.''
OBSERVER
This is the story of three unheralded nineteenth-century dissidents, whose lives were profoundly shaped by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to blow strongly today: Louise Michel, a leader of the radical socialist government known as the Paris Commune; Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo
