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Sauer LECTURE SERIES

A Servant of Two Masters

Robin Donkin, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Jesus College and Reader in Historical Geography

September 20, 1995

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About Robin Donkin

Robert Donkin was a British historian and geographer who served as a reader in Historical Geography at the Department of Geography at Cambridge University in 1990. A fellow of the British Academy, Donkin published works on a wide range of subjects, including Cistercian monasteries, agricultural terracing, the history of pearls and pearl fishing, the Muscovy duck, the Guinea fowl, and the history of spices and aromatics.