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Herbert Adams Gibbons
1880–1934
An early 20th-century journalist and foreign correspondent, he wrote vividly about world politics, empire, and the shifting map of Europe, Asia, and Africa. His work brings a firsthand, on-the-ground perspective to events that were reshaping the modern world.
6 Audiobooks
Anglo-Saxon Solidarity
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
The Foundation of the Ottoman Empire; a history of the Osmanlis up to the death of Bayezid I (1300-1403)
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
Riviera Towns
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
The blackest page in modern history: Events in Armenia in 1915 the facts and the responsibilities
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
Europe Since 1918
by Herbert Adams Gibbons
About the author
Born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1880, Herbert Adams Gibbons was an American journalist, author, and lecturer whose career took him across Europe, the Near East, and Africa. He studied at Princeton and first traveled abroad as a missionary with his wife, Helen Davenport Gibbons, before turning to reporting and nonfiction writing.
Gibbons became known for writing about international politics, colonial rivalry, and war at a time when global power was being dramatically rearranged. He worked as a foreign correspondent for major American newspapers and later wrote widely read books including The New Map of Asia, The New Map of Europe, and The New Map of Africa, blending travel, reportage, and historical interpretation.
What makes his work especially interesting today is how closely it is tied to the events he witnessed. Writing in the years around World War I and after, he helped readers understand complicated international struggles in a direct, readable way. He died in 1934, leaving behind a large body of work on diplomacy, conflict, and the changing shape of the world.