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David Ball

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gender

male

website

http://www.davidwball.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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David Ball has been to 60 countries on six continents. He has lived and worked in various parts of Africa. In the course of researching his novel Empires of Sand, he crossed the Sahara desert four times, and got lost there only once. Research trips for other novels have taken him to China, Istanbul, Algeria, and Malta -- a little island where so far he hasn't gotten lost at all.

A former pilot, sarcophagus maker, and businessman, David has driven a taxi in New York City and built a road in West Africa. He installed telecommunications equipment in Cameroun and explored the Andes in a Volkswagen bus. He has renovated old Victorian houses in Denver and pumped gasoline in the Grand Tetons.

He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia Univ...more

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Books by David Ball

Average rating: 3.90 · 1384 ratings · 231 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Ironfire: A Novel of the Knights of Malta and the Last Battle of the Crusades 425 avg rating — 293 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	Empires of Sand 400 avg rating — 148 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	China Run 387 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Warriors by George R.R. Martin (editor), Gardner R. Dozois (editor), Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author) 376 avg rating — 834 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	My rating: