Nicholas Shakespeare chronicles the life and career of one of the mostcharismatic and elusive literary figures of recent times who was at once awriter archaeolo... » 

Nicholas Shakespeare chronicles the life and career of one of the mostcharismatic and elusive literary figures of recent times who was at once awriter archaeologist photographer and art collector and who despite hisreputation as a socialite was also a loner who explored the limits of extremesolitude. ...one of the most beautifully written painstakingly researched andcleverly constructed biographies of this decade Literary Review. «