Dr William Butcher

BA Warwick, MA Lancaster, PhD Lond,, Anc El (Etr.) ENS

email: wbutcher at netvigator.com

1A, Kai Ku Shue Ha Village
Luk Keng, North District, NT
Hong Kong
 

Tel: (852) 9488 6470


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Hongkonger Bill Butcher was Founding Director of the Language Centres at the IVE, and is at present an independent writer and property restorer. Previously, he worked at Oxford and the ENA (Paris).

His principal research area is the nineteenth-century French novelist Jules Verne, on whom he has published a million words and is the authority most cited online.

Recent books

Le Tour du monde (Gallimard, 2009)

Salon de 1857 (Acadien, 2008)

Recent publications

Various sections in a book in Spanish, sections plagiarised from my writings (c. 2009)

"The Quest for Jules Verne's Amazing Machines", Omega Lifetime,

"Introduction" in Extraordinary Voyages

Interview

France 5, Echappées belles, "Autour du monde", 14 June 2008, "Londres", 46 mins-52 mins