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Sybille Bedford, whose last book, "Jigsaw", was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, writes on travel, evoking Europe and the past, and justice, with accounts of the "Lady …
High up on the remote Indian borders with Tibet, China and Pakistan, beyond the Kashmir Valley, lies Ladakh, one of the last places where a Tibetan Buddhist community survives. …
Disenchanted with his native Ireland Peter Lennon, a novice journalist in the late 1950s, borrowed thirty pounds and headed for Paris to take his chances as a foreign …
An account of Norman Douglas's travels from village to village in Southern Italy around the turn of the century. From Gargano to Aspromonte, the natives - and even the dogs, are …
In 1984 the novelist Caryl Phillips set off on a journey across Europe in an attempt to clarify the fundamental question of his identity - as he put it "to come to terms with what …
Home to 36 islanders - descendents of the "Bounty" mutineers - Pitcairn has no cars, no crime and no doctor. For two centuries Fletcher Christian's children, whose culture is a …
Thrown out of her home in President Moi's Kenya - where she lived 22 years - for reporting too freely what went on there, Mary Anne took to the road and explored Africa, venturing …
Exposes the problems of life in modern East Africa. George Monbiot travels to Kenya and Tanzania where the pastoral peoples are being forced from their land and regularly and …
Part guide and part autobiography, this book by the politician Roy Hattersley describes the county of Yorkshire. As the county of his upbringing and object of his loyalty, the …
Some Adventures with Rod and Gun.