Bamber Gascoigne and his wife did not have any children.
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Bamber was the author of Murgatreud’s Empire, a 1972 satirical novel concerning an entrepreneur who finds an island of pygmies, and trades them arms for treasure, recreating the development of European medieval weaponry and armour.
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This was originally written as a script, although the play was abandoned because of the impossibility of finishing suitable performers for a cast of forty pygmies
Bamber was the writer and presenter for the TV series of six The Great Moghuls (1990), a study of the Mughal Empire of India. The series was based on Bamber’s 1971 book of the same name, which features photographs by his wife.


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