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Sir John Ure has served as British Ambassador to Cuba, Brazil and Sweden. His travel books have included accounts of retracing the campaigns of Tamerlane in Asia, San Martin in South America, Captain Morgan in the Caribbean, and Bonnie Prince Charlie in Scotland. He lives with his family in the weald of Kent, but periodically visits Arabia and Central Asia as a guest lecturerUre, John is the author of 'In Search of Nomads An Anglo-American Obsession from Hester Stanhope to Bruce Chatwin', published 2005 under ISBN 9780786716500 and ISBN 0786716509.
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