WILLIAM JOHN BURCHELL SAINT HELENA 1805 - 1810 BY ROBIN CASTELL

WILLIAM JOHN BURCHELL SAINT HELENA 1805 - 1810 BY ROBIN CASTELL: HARDCOVER, FULLY INTACT DUST JACKET, 328 PAGES, FIRST EDITION, 2011, NO INSCRIPTIONS OR NAMES, IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

Robin Castell was born in 1941 in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, England. He was educated at Dover where his academic studies were not taken very seriously, except in the subjects of English, Art and History. His vocation to the work ethic was reasonably dedicated in that survival seemed to be somewhat of a necessity. He is a Freeman and Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of the lurners of the City of London, and is an elected member of the Royal Historical Society. He is also President of the St. Helena Island Society. He served as a Magistrate on the Uxbridge Bench for ten years until his departure from England in 1985 to the shores of sunny South Africa, where his endorphins were agreeably stimulated and where his mortal coil took on a whole new meaning, as well as a more acceptable and pleasing way of life. He has published several books about the Island of St. Helena since 1977, and has a beautiful Georgian country house in the Island, where "The Castell Collection" contains the largest permanent public exhibition in the world, of St. Helena prints, maps, engravings, aquarelles and lithographs. He has been collecting early St. Helena photographs since 1974.