An Empire On the Edge

Nick Bunker is the author of Making Haste from Babylon, a history of the Mayflower Pilgrims described by the Washington Post as “a remarkable success.” Educated at King’s College, Cambridge and Columbia University, he was a journalist for the Liverpool Echo and the Financial Times, and then an investment banker, chiefly with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. During his careers in journalism and finance he travelled widely in China, India, the former Soviet bloc and the United States. He now lives in Lincolnshire, England.