Travel guides and adventures.
British Consul and antiquities-collector Thomas Sandwith’s account of his two months travelling in Egypt provides a valuable new primary source on a dynamic period in Egyptian history. His account of newly discovered sites and meetings with Egyptologists provide a new perspective on the burgeoning ”golden age” of Egyptology. His astute descriptions of his journey from … Read more
In Velvet: Elk. Wapiti and Deer Stories – in his compelling memoir, Dr. Jerry Haigh shares 34 years of hands-on experience working with deer across the globe. The book is divided into three fascinating sections: Part One: A behind-the-scenes look at zoo and free-ranging elk (wapiti) projects in Western Canada, blending science with storytelling. Part … Read more
Julius Euting’s Diary of a Journey through Inner Arabia, 1883–1884. First English edition, translated by Christopher Metcalf and edited by William Facey (f 66) and Michael Macdonald. Epigraphist, artist, keen hiker, nature-lover and traveller, the German scholar Julius Euting (1839–1913) was one of the great Semitists of his time. Born in Stuttgart, he moved to … Read more
Laurence Blair (b 09) is pleased to report that his first book, PATRIA, was published by Vintage Books on 7 November 2024. PATRIA is an alternative history of South America, combining archival research, travel writing, and a decade’s worth of present-day reporting for the BBC, the Guardian, and the New York Times from across the … Read more
A Suspicion of Spies – the biography of Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale CMG, MBE. 1920 Odessa Ukraine. The Russian Civil War is at its height, a young British man working for Naval Intelligence picks up a report from one of his agents. The crew of the Russian submarine OUTKA are going to mutiny and throw their … Read more
Running on Empty: 18,000 miles down Africa with Parkinson’s by Guy Deacon. ‘An immense feat of endurance, a remarkable achievement, and a truly inspirational adventure filled with courage and hope’ – Sir Ranulph Fiennes. At the age of sixty, and having lived with Parkinson’s disease for over ten years, Guy Deacon CBE set out on … Read more
Imagine it’s 1965, and you’ve just fulfilled a boyhood ambition and graduated from the vet college in Glasgow, Scotland. The very next week you find yourself in Kenya, treating wild animals. This is what happened to Dr. Jerry Haigh, who in Wrestling with Rhinos takes us deep into the post-independence Kenya of 1965, and shows … Read more
It is 1970 and in London a group of people gather around a Land Rover covered in jerry cans and rigged up to a trailer. Ahead lies a journey of many thousands of miles on ‘The Hippie Trail’, the well-trodden route from London to Nepal. They will encounter every imaginable hazard along increasingly dangerous roads … Read more
Confessions of an English Alcalde: a Cautionary Tale is a compelling and richly entertaining account of life, with both its joys and complications, in a small village set deep among the olive groves of Andalusia. It sets the dream of rural bliss against the demanding and sometimes harsh reality of adjusting to values and a … Read more
In Dining with al-Qaeda, Hugh Pope guides the reader on an enlightening, unexpected and sometimes tragi-comic journey through more than a dozen countries, from Afghanistan to Turkey and from Sudan to Iraq. Speaking Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Pope’s experiences give a first-hand feel for warfronts and sieges, Persian poetry and Islamic revolution, and, not least, … Read more