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Damian Le Bas
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Damian Le Bas

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Damian Le Bas is a writer, film-maker and visual artist. His first book, The Stopping Places, won a Somerset Maugham Award, a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Besides getting in the sea, he loves music, reading and spending time in the woods and hills with his family and friends. Damian studied Theology at Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. The Drowned Places is his second book.

Books by Damian Le Bas

The Drowned Places

From Ancient Greece to Port Royal, Damian Le Bas embarks on a cultural exploration of diving, investigating sunken human ruins around the world and the marine life that thrives there now

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The Stopping Places

A journey through Gypsy Britain with a dazzling new writer and native son of the Romany community

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