Marq De Villiers
Marq De Villiers ( born 1940 in Bloemfontein, South Africa ) is a South African- Canadian journalist and writer.
De Villiers worked as a foreign correspondent in Moscow and Eastern Europe. In Canada, he worked as editor of the Toronto Life Magazine and WHERE Magazine. He has authored over a dozen non-fiction books in different subject areas, including American and South African history and politics, travel reports and environmental issues. His books have been translated in up to eleven languages .
He is married to the editor and author Sheila Hirtle, with whom he also writes books together. They live in Nova Scotia.
Works
- White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid 's bitter roots: notes of an eighth - generation Africans. Penguin USA, 1989.
- Down the Volga: A Journey Through Mother Russia in a Time of Troubles. ISBN 0-67084-353-9.
- Blood Traitor: A True Saga of the American Revolution. With Sheila Hirtle. Harper Collins, 1996. ISBN 0-00-255424-0.
- Into Africa: A Journey Through the Ancient Empires. With Sheila Hirtle. Key Porter Books, October 1997. ISBN 1-55013-884-7.
- Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource. ( German: Water Econ, 2000 ISBN 978-3430193726. .. )
- Sahara: The Life of the Great Desert. With Sheila Hirtle. McClelland & Stewart, and Walker and Co., 2003 ISBN. 0-7710-2639-0.
- Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather. McClelland & Stewart, 2006. ISBN 0-7710-2644-7.
- Witch in the Wind: The True Story of the Legendary Bluenose. Thomas Allen and Co., 2007. ISBN 0-88762-224-0.
- Timbuktu: The Sahara 's Fabled City of Gold. McClelland and Stewart, 2007. ISBN 978-0-7710-2646-1.
- Dangerous World. Penguin, 2008. ISBN 978-0670065684.