For ten hair-raising years, Andrew Graham-Yooll was the news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, and under threat of 'disappearance' he helped families of the missing, attended guerilla conference, and took tea with torturers.
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2000.
Describes the Costa Brava, a place where men regulated their lives by the sardine shoals of spring and autumn and the tuna fishing of summer, and where women kept goats and gardens, arranged marriages and made ends meet.
Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet.
Charles Nicholl pieces together the shadowy story of Rimbaud s life as a trader, explorer and gun-runner.
Travels in Thailand and Burma in 1968, learning about the spiritual traditions of forest Buddhism.
Letters written from 1716-1718 from the Ottoman Empire by Mary Wortley Montagu, one of the first modern travel writers. A revelation in their day.
Rogerson family history.
Unique eyewitness account from 1917 of Morocco as a French protectorate.
The memoir of a young cavalry officer in India in the British Empire and his search for spiritual fulfilment.
Veronica was not a casual traveler but a young musician married to a scholar. She was determined to make use of her time in Afghanistan and break out of the charmed circle of the expatriate academic and make real friendships with local women.