簡介 Michael Wood

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Michael Wood is the writer and presenter of many critically acclaimed series on television, including "Art of the Western World," "Conquistadors" and "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great." He is author of over sixty TV films which have been shown worldwide and of several best selling and highly praised books.

He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford where he did postgraduate research in Anglo-Saxon history. Since then he has worked as a journalist, broadcaster and film maker. His films have centered on history, but have included travel ("Great Railway Journeys of the World," "River Journeys; The Sacred Way"); politics ("Saddam's Killing Fields," an award winning account of the destruction of the Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq) and cultural history ("Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail," in 1999; a study of the abuse of history and archaeology under the Nazis).

His academic background was in early medieval English history; among his publications are "In Search of the Dark Ages" and "Domesday." He published a recent series of medieval essays as "In Search of England."

書籍	影集
In Search of the Dark Ages (1981)	In Search of the Dark Ages (1981)
In Search of the Trojan War (1985)	In Search of the Trojan War (1985)
Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England (1988)	Domesday: A Search for the Roots of England (1988)
	Art of the Western World (1989)
Legacy: A Search for the Origins of Civilization (1992)	Legacy: A Search for the Origins of Civilization (1992)
The Smile of Murugan: A South Indian Journey (1995)
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1997)	In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (1997)
In Search of England: Journeys Into the English Past (1999)
Conquistadors (2000)	Conquistadors (2000)
Shakespeare (2003)	In Search of Shakespeare (2003)
In Search of Myths and Heroes (2005)	In Search of Myths and Heroes (2005)
India: An Epic Journey Across the Subcontinent (2007)	The Story of India (2007)

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　　迈克·伍德，出生于英国曼彻斯特，毕业自曼彻斯特文法学校及牛津大学奥瑞尔学院。牛津毕业后，曾留校继续从事盎格鲁撒克逊史的研究。后做过记者，播音员及电影导演，当过作家，拍摄过50余部的纪录片。

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