Anthony Sattin British journalist and broadcaster and the author of several highly acclaimed books of history and travel.

He completed a literature degree at the University of Warwick and an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. His main area of interest is the Middle East and Africa, particularly Egypt, and he has lived and travelled extensively in these regions.

Sattin's books include The Pharaoh's Shadow, Shooting the Breeze, Lifting the Veil, and The Gates of Africa. He discovered and edited Florence Nightingale's previously unpublished letters from Egypt and has edited A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad. Sattin has been a long-time regular contributor to the Sunday Times travel and books pages and to Conde Nast Traveller. His work has appeared in a number of other international publication, including The Daily Telegraph, the Independent and Guardian. He sits on the editorial advisory board of Geographical Magazine and has contributed to several guidebook series, including the Lonely Planet volumes on Egypt and Algeria.

He began broadcasting in 1984, when he presented an arts magazine programme for the Arts Channel. A director of the independent producer, the Principal Film Company, his on-screen appearances have included BBC series The Tourist and The Thirties in Colour. Sattin has also presented a number of documentaries for radio including the Sunday Feature Buying a Culture for BBC Radio 3 and the prograame "Crazy for Love: Layla and the Mad Poet" for Radio 4.

Giles Foden, writing in the Conde Nast Traveller magazine, has called Anthony Sattin one of the ten key influences in modern travel writing.

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