Annabel Walker is an

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author, who grew up in South-West Devon. She read English and History at Bristol University and subsequently became a

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working for the national press in London. Her first book, ''Kensington and Chelsea: A Social and Architectural History'', was published by John Murray in 1987. In 1995, her

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of the explorer

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(subsequently translated and published in Chinese) was reviewed in the TLS, The Spectator, as well as academic journals.Asian Affairs, 27, no. 2 (1996): 143-149 She is also the author of ''England from the Air''. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989.

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