A MAN who has written several books on terrorism, refugees and a Nobel Peace Prize winner has published a new book about Iceland.
David Whittaker, 91, said his book The Iceland Watch, a study on the country’s history, politics and achievements, will be his last book.
Mr Whittaker, a retired academic specialising in geopolitics who lives in Richmond, became interested in Iceland after meeting Professor Gisli Thorsteinsson though mutual friends from Scandinavia – another interest of Mr Whittaker, whose late wife was from Finland.
He said: “I started writing in the 1960s, then trained as a teacher at the Darlington College of Education, and later at Durham University, then as a teacher of international relations at Teesside University.
"Iceland is a fascinating place, it has only 300,000 inhabitants but it thinks big. Its people are very well educated in science, maths and computing; and its government is resourceful, outward in perspective and forward in vision and intent.”
Mr Whittaker has also written The Terrorism Reader, reproduced by NATO for Germany and Russia; Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the Contemporary World; and a biography of Philip Noel-Baker MP, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959.
The book is available from Waterstones, Amazon and WH Smith online, and www.memoirspublishing.com.
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