Based on his diaries and letters exchanged with Queen Victoria, here is the story of Sir James Reid and his relationship with the Royal Family, including his treatment of Princess Christian's opium addiction.
An account of two years spent as a house guest in remote Nepal, in a village a ten days' walk from the nearest road.
Medieval Andalucia is known as a land of regrets, the place of the Moorish King's last sigh, where travelers sense the destruction of mosque of Cordoba and feel... Læs mere
Winner of the Dolman Best Travel Book Award 2008. A sharply observed and passionate portrait of Greece as Greeks would see it.
This book is the perfect companion to any exploration of Ethiopia, be it in the precarious saddle of an Abyssinian pony, or from the folds of an armchair.
Originally published: London: Johnathan Cape, 1993.
The first collection of English translations of traditional Berber odes.
The autobiography of the Duke of Pirajno, who worked for eighteen years as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland.
A chronicle of the lives of several British lighthouse keepers and their families, revealing the reason for their solitary career.
Presents a portrait of the Greece the author came to know through a lifetime of exploration. This work is a fusion of experience, a gift of insight from one philhellene to all those who have come to love Greece.