EXILES: THREE ISLAND JOURNEYS (PB)

This is the story of three unheralded nineteenth-century dissidents – Louise Michel, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo and Lev Shternberg – whose lives were profoundly shaped by the winds of empire, nationalism and autocracy that continue to blow strongly today. In Exiles, William Atkins travels to their islands of banishment - Michel's New Caledonia in the South Pacific, Dinuzulu's St Helena in the South Atlantic, and Shternberg's Sakhalin off the Siberian coast - in a bid to understand how exile shaped them and the people among whom they were exiled.