Barnaby Rogerson

Traveller, historian and publisher at Eland which specialises in keeping the classics of travel literature in print.

Barnaby Rogerson is traveller, historian and publisher. His most recent published work is The Last Crusaders which is centred on the conflict between the Ottoman Empire and the Last Crusader Kings of Christendom.
Rogerson has also written a biography of The Prophet Muhammad which was followed by the story of first four Caliphs of Islam, The Heirs of the Prophet Muhammad. Before this he had written half a dozen guidebooks (to Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, Scotland and Istanbul) and a History of North Africa (now in its third edition).

Last year Rogerson contributed the text to Don McCullin’s most recent book of photographs, Southern Frontiers, an ambitious tour across the Roman ruins in the Levant and the Maghreb. He is currently writing a book on nine heroic figures from the Maghreb for an American Publisher, to be published (God Willing) in 2011.

Over the last fifteen years he has also written dozens of travel articles, book reviews and historical essays on various North African and Islamic themes. This work has appeared in the pages of Vanity Fair, Cornucopia, Conde Nast Traveller, Geographical, Traveller, Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, House & Garden, Harpers & Queen and the TLS.