Daniel Metcalf

About The Author

Daniel Metcalfe graduated from the University of Oxford as a scholar in Classics. His first book, Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia, was shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award and the Banff Mountain Book award. He has written for The Economist, Guardian, Financial Times, Vice News, Condé Nast Traveler, Foreign Policy, Prospect and the New Statesman. He speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Persian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, and is an occasional Persian/Dari interpreter for the EU Agency for Asylum. He lives in Málaga, Spain.

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Books by Daniel Metcalf

Fields of Mars

A New History of the Fall of the Roman Empire

By Daniel Metcalf

A remarkable history of the end of the Roman Empire that captures the atmosphere and immediacy of a watershed moment in human civilization.

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