A charming & beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel
- for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor Colin Thubron &
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A charming & beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel
- for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor Colin Thubron &
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The British adventure series TRAVELLING MAN starred Leigh Lawson as Lomax a drug cop who was railroaded into prison on a trumped-up bribery charge Released after serving two years Lomax swore to track down the man responsible for framing him & also to locate his own son who had fallen victim to drug peddlers To this end Lomax travelled along the many British canals in a battered narrowboat solving the problems of various guest stars at sundry ports of call a la THE FUGITIVE ...

This lovely mug & coaster set is a great gift for jet setters & those who love travelling Made from bone china ...

Since 911 the reader has been inundated with academic volumes about radical Islam the geo-political alliances of Pakistan & the identity of the Taliban What has been lacking is Travels in a Dervish Cloak an affectionate hashish-scented travel book full of humour & delight written by a young Irish foreign correspondent living on his wits on the contacts from his grandmother s address book & with a kidney given to him by his brother Others might have conserved this gift of a life-saving kidney by living a sober & quiet life but it had the opposite affect on Isambard Wilkinson who took to the adventurous life of a Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent like a cat assured of nine lives His rich & wonderfully intimate picture of Pakistan describes the country in all its exuberant colourful contemporary glory It s a place where past empires be they Mughal or Raj continue to shine like old gold beneath the chaotic jigsaw of Baluch Punjabi Sindi & Pashtun peoples not to mention warlords hereditary saints bandit landlords smugglers & party-mad socialites The only way to understand the contradictions is to plunge into the riot of differences & to come out grinning ...

Alexander Burnes travelled up the Indus to Lahore & to the Khanates of Afghanistan & Central Asia in the 1830s spying on behalf of the British Government in what was to become known as the ' Great Game' His account of these travels was a bestseller in its day & this brand new edition brings the heady sense of excitement risk & zeal bursting from the pages ...

With the help of a Maratha nobleman Mark Shand buys an elephant named Tara & rides her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela the world's oldest elephant market From Bhim a drink-racked mahout Shand learned to ride & care for her From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways & with Tara his new companion he fell in love " Travels on my Elephant" is the story of their epic journey across India from packed highways to dusty back roads where communities were unchanged for millennia It is also a memorable touching account of Tara's transformation from scrawny beggar elephant to star attraction & of the romance that developed between her & her owner Mark Shand For what began as an adventurous whim has developed decades later into a life of campaigning to provide vital migratory corridors for these magnificent creatures whose habitat is under constant assault from man ...

Travels with Boogie is the story of two city slickers
- one an unattractive but streetwise mongrel from Stockwell the other the
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When he was almost sixty years old worried that he might have lost touch with the sights the sounds & the essence of America's people Steinbeck took note of his itchy feet & prepared to travel He was accompanied by his French poodle Charley diplomat & watchdog across the states of America from Maine to California Moving through the woods & deserts dirt tracks & highways to large cities & glorious wildernesses Steinbeck observed
- with remarkable honesty & insight with a humorous & sometimes sceptical eye
- America & the Americans who inhabited it What he saw was a lonely generous nation too packed with individuals for single judgements; what he saw made him proud angry sympathetic & elated His vision of how the world was changing still speaks to us prophetically through the decades

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Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays
- to India China & Africa
- with the great Greek

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