Philip Boobbyer

This book is a biographical study of the geographer, explorer, and banker Francis Rodd, the second Lord Rennell of Rodd (1895-1978). Rodd's life is intriguing for the way it connected the worlds of geography, international finance, politics, espionage, and wartime military administration. He was renowned in the 1920s for his expeditions to the Sahara and his study of the Tuareg,...