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Alan McCrae Moorehead (1910–83). Australian reporter, foreign correspondent, and historian Alan Moorehead was highly praised for his coverage of the African campaigns in World War II. His accounts of that period were published in his African Trilogy (1944). He was born on July 22, 1910, in Melbourne, Australia. He attended Scotch College and Melbourne University, where he edited the Melbourne… Educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and Melbourne University, he served as foreign correspondent of the Daily Express from 1936 to 1939, one of his first assignments being the Spanish Civil War. During the Second World War he was war correspondent in the Middle and Far East and in much of Europe, and was awarded the OBE. His books include African Trilogy (1944); Montgomery (1946); Gallipoli (1956), which won the Sunday Times 1956 Book Prize and the Duff Cooper Memorial Award; The Russian Revolution (1958); No Room in the Ark (1959); The White Nile (1960); The Blue Nile (1962); Cooper's Creek (1963), which received the Royal Society of Literature Award; The Fatal Impact (1966); Darwin and the Beagle (1969) and A Late Education: Episodes in a Life (1970). He was awarded the CBE in 1968. He was married to Lucy Milner, a former women's page editor of the Daily Express and they had two sons and a daughter. Alan Moorehead died in 1983. Alan Moorehead has made many journeys all over the continent of Africa. He warns the world that unless something is done, many of the great animals in Africa would soon become extinct. The present text is taken from No Room in the Ark he wrote in 1959.


   
 
 
 
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