Brought up in late-Victorian Presbyterian Aberdeenshire, McBey became a war artist in WW1. A decade later he married the American Marguerite Loeb and went to live in Tangier, in a house on Old Mountain called El Foolk. In due course this belonged to the greatly missed Christopher Gibbs.
Shadows and Light: The Extraordinary Life of James McBey
(author)
£29.99
Edition:Hardback978191089563401/12/2022
Categories: 01. Books For Christmas 2023: Biography, Art, Biography, Letters & Diaries, Books For Christmas 2023
Tags: Africa, Scotland
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