Felipe Fernández-Armesto was born in London in 1950. His books include
The Times Atlas of World Exploration, Columbus, Edward Gibbon's Atlas
of the World, Barcelona: a Thousand Years of the City's Past,
Millennium and Truth. Translations of his work have appeared in twenty
languages and he has been shortlisted for numerous prizes.
Fernández-Armesto is Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen
Mary, University of London, and has been a member of the Faculty of
Modern History at Oxford University since 1983. From September 2005 he
has been Principe de Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization
at Tufts University. He lives in Oxford.