6/25/2023 0 Comments Ironfire by David Ball![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative shifts to the Sahara in the 1880s, during an ill-fated attempt by the French to drive a railroad through the heart of the desert. The first half of the story involves two cousins growing up during the Prussian Siege of Paris. Trained in journalism but wishing to write fiction, Ball seriously began work on Empires of Sand in 1994, recovering 100 pages of a manuscript he had written in a Tunisian beach house in 1984 while traveling in North Africa, but later shelving the work to go into business.Įmpires of Sand, (Bantam 1999), is a historical novel set in the Sahara Desert and 19th-century Paris. He installed telecommunications equipment in Cameroun, renovated Victorian houses in Denver and pumped gasoline in the Grand Tetons. He drove a taxi in New York City and built a road in West Africa. He has been a pilot, sarcophagus maker, businessman and charity organizer. Careerīall has traveled extensively, visiting more than 65 countries on six continents. He earned a master's of science degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1973. ![]() His father Jack served in World War II as a pilot, first in the Royal Air Force and then the US Navy.īall earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Metropolitan State University, Denver, where he was editor of the campus newspaper and active in student politics. Ball, a native of Denver, Colorado was the middle of five children born to Carol and Jack Ball. ![]()
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