David Baker
Also known as: David Alexander Baker
David Baker (born 1944) is a prolific British space author and self-described space scientist. His description of his career is that he first visited the US in 1962and returned to work for NASA on the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs between 1965 and 1984as a Mission Planning and Analysis Department. He reports that he was present at NASA during Apollo 13 in 1970.
I come from Des Moines.
— from THE LOST CONTINENT
Most acclaimed
Vintage
1989
When a washed-up food journalist learns the secret of a legendary lost vintage of Burgundy stolen during World War II, he sets off on a trans-European quest to find the wine that might save his career and his failing marriage.
THE LOST CONTINENT
The year is 2137, over 160 years ago the "Great War" was fought in Europe. The Western Hemisphere stayed out of the conflict, as much as possible, using the slogan: "The East for the East ... The West for the West." For all this time the USA did not go past 30 degrees or 175 degrees latitude. Until.... The aero-submarine, "Coldwater" in command of Lieutenant Jefferson Turck is blown past the 30 in a raging storm. Damaged, the ship landed in Europe only to find that it was not the enemy that was expected but something entirely different. Originally published in 1915 as "Beyond 30".
Ideology of Obsession
"Arthur Kenneth Chesterton, cousin of G. K. Chesterton, was a leading member of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists who later became the first leader of the National Front. Chesterton's life and career spanned the inter- and post-war period. He grew up in South Africa, fought in the First World War and by the age of 21 had begun to experience a powerful sense of disillusionment with the peace, missing the classless comradeship and shared sense of purpose of the trenches and finding his own 'colonial outsider' mentality with its idealized vision of England increasingly at odds with postwar British society. As a literary critic and the editor of a provincial newspaper in the 1920s, Chesterton's sense of cultural despair deepened and reading classic works of English literature became a source of escape and a further opportunity to lose himself in fantasies of an older, better England. By 1933, Chesterton had discovered fascism."--BOOK JACKET. "David Baker's new biography explores the powerful historical, social and intellectual background to Chesterton's life and career. He places Chesterton in the wider context of British fascism to explore the question of why fascist ideology proved so compelling among leading figures of the British establishment - attracting not just the weak and marginalized and social misfits, but those who occupied self-assured and prominent roles in British society. Through the life of one leading fascist, Baker looks at the violent racist, anti-semitic and conspiratorial expression of British fascism and suggests that a definition of fascist ideology must be broadened to take account of its emergence in a liberal democratic society."--BOOK JACKET.