Mike Dash

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Mike Dash (* 1963 in London ) is a Welsh historian, journalist, researcher and author.

Dash studied history at Cambridge University and King's College London and received his doctorate on British submarine politics from 1853 to 1918 . For over 20 years, Dash published Fortean Times , a magazine that specializes in the study of para-scientific phenomena and succeeds Charles Fort . In Germany, Dash has published books on the sinking of the Batavia and the Dutch tulip craze in the 17th century.

bibliography

  • The Limit: Engineering at the Boundaries of Science . BBC, 1995, ISBN 0-563-37117-X .
  • Borderlands: The Ultimate Exploration of the Unknown . Dell, 1997, ISBN 0-440-23656-8 .
    • German: X-Phenomena: Searching for traces in the realm of the supernatural. Translated by Will de Blôme. Bettendorf, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-88498-110-2 .
  • Tulipomania: The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused . Crown, 2000, ISBN 0-609-60439-2 .
    • German: Tulpenwahn. The craziest speculation in history. Claassen Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-5460-0177-X .
  • Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002, ISBN 0-575-07024-2 .
  • Thug: The True Story of India's Murderous Cult . Granta Books, 2005, ISBN 1-86207-604-9 .
  • Satan's Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century . Crown Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-307-39522-1 .
  • The First Family: Terror, Extortion and the Birth of the American Mafia . Simon & Schuster, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84737-173-7 .

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SURNAME Dash, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH London