About the Author

John Train has written many books, of which a number are best-sellers, on investment, etymology and other subjects. He has published several hundred columns, including regular columns in Forbes, Town & Country and the Financial Times. Mark Edward Smith has been working for over twenty-five years specialising in travel reportage, fine art, nude, archaeological and architectural photography. He had more than twenty personal exhibitions, teaches photography in Padua and Venice and has published in Italy, Great Britain, the U.S.A, France, Germany and Japan.