Meet Hugh Brody
Hugh Brody is an author, filmmaker and anthropologist who has lived in Vancouver, London and the Suffolk coast. Born in Sheffield, England in 1943, he attended Trinity College at Oxford for both undergraduate and graduate degrees and has held teaching positions at several universities in Ireland, Canada and England, including 14 years as a Senior Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies. He is also a recipient of several Honorary positions: Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor Of Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury.
The 50+ years of his career, however, have not been primarily spent in academia, but as a freelance writer, researcher, expert witness, filmmaker and author. For more details about his life and specifics of his career, please have a look at this Wikipedia page.
New Book from Hugh Brody
A dazzling tapestry of personal memory and distant landscapes: childhood in England in the shadow of the Second World War, the Derbyshire hills, a kibbutz in Israel and the deep Canadian Arctic.
LANDSCAPES OF SILENCE
From Childhood to the Arctic
Hardcover, 352 pages
Expected publication: July 21st 2022 by Faber Faber