Travel guides and adventures.
Hugh Pope, Dining with Al-Qaeda: Three Decades Exploring the Many Worlds of the Middle East. An Oxford-educated scholar of the Middle East and former foreign correspondent for “The Wall Street Journal”, Hugh Pope lived and worked in two dozen countries throughout the region. Following in the footsteps of Sir Richard Burton and Lawrence of Arabia, … Read more
Aidan Hartley, Wild Life: Adventures on an African Farm. Five years ago, after the senseless murder of his closest friend in Nairobi, Aidan Hartley packed up his bags and headed for the hills with his wife and young daughter. They bought a vast tract of dry land in Laikipia in Northern Kenya, with no fences, … Read more
Timothy Garton Ash, Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name. ‘During times of universal deceit’, wrote George Orwell, ‘telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.’ For more than thirty years, Timothy Garton Ash has travelled among truth tellers and political charlatans to record, with scalpel-sharp precision, what he has found. This … Read more
Peter Coy visited Mexico several times between 1960 and 1985; twice as a student, undergraduate and postgraduate, and twice as a married lecturer on sabbatical leave. This study of a village was conducted over two periods of twelve and four months and was anthropological in purpose. In this book Coy treats the study of a … Read more
Tobias Jones, The Dark Heart of Italy: Travels Through Time and Space Across Italy. Why is Italy still riven with internal conflict? Why does one man – Silvio Berlusconi – appear to own everything from Padre Nostro to Cosa Nostra? Tobias Jones sets out to answer these and many other questions during his three-year voyage … Read more
G.H.R. Tillotson, Taj Mahal. ‘Marble enigma, most photographed of structures, the Taj Mahal lends its name to a prime brand of Indian tea bags and stands too as the world’s great, extravagant monument to eternal love. This wry, brisk book is a delightful and fascinating excavation of the Taj Mahal’s many layers of meanings. Giles … Read more
Brian Moynahan, The French Century: An Illustrated History of Modern France. Sixteen chapters cover the history of France from the end of the 19th century to the present day, encapsulating everything from political events and scientific discoveries to cultural achievements and sporting triumphs. The five presidents of France’s fifth republic: Charles de Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, … Read more
Peter Bruce, Inshore Along the Dorset Coast. Publisher : Boldre Marine; 4th edition (1 March 2008) Language: : English Paperback : 136 pages ISBN-10 : 1871680417 ISBN-13 : 978-1871680416 www.peterbruce.co.uk
Peter Coy, Crack a Culture. This is a ‘do-it-yourself’ plan of action for anyone who wishes to spend up to a year out of the U.K. getting to know another society. Acquiring a deeper knowledge of a European community leaves fewer carbon footprints and is also, probably, a safer option than traipsing around the Far … Read more