Category Archives: Travel Guides
How To Use Plastic Sextants
Sextants are used to measure angular heights of celestial bodies above the horizon to find the latitude and longitude of the observer. They can also be used on land with artificial horizons. Sextants can also be used to find the correct Universal Time by measuring the angular distance between the moon and another body along
Naples `44 – An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth
Norman Lewis arrived in Naples in 1944 as an Intelligence Officer attached to the American 5th Army. The local populace were starving and desperate. They had devoured all the tropical fish in the aquarium, respectable women had been driven to prostitution and the black market was king, but still they retained an unquenchable zest for
GPS Backup with a Mark 3 Sextant
All Instructions and Tables Included; For Any Ocean, on Any Date; No Background in Celestial Navigation Required.No power, and batteries used up? This book and an inexpensive Mark 3 sextant lets you carry on. Alternatively, if you want to learn a basic celestial navigation position fix for any reason with minimum investment, this book shows
Far Away and Long Ago
The first eighteen years of William Hudson`s life were spent on the Argentinean pampas. Although he was a scholarly ornithologist, every page of this book reveals a rapturous delight in the wildlife of the pampas, animal or human. He mixed with cut-throat gauchos, he pursued ostriches, explored lagoons, and allowed burrowing armadillos to drag him
Travels With Myself and Another
Out of a lifetime of travelling, Martha Gellhorn has selected her “best horror journeys”. She bumps through rain-sodden, war-torn China to meet Chiang Kai-Shek, floats listlessly in search of u-boats in the wartime Caribbean and visits a dissident writer in the Soviet Union against her better judgement.Written with the eye of a novelist and an
Weather in Africa
Martha Gellhorn`s three intertwined novellas are concerned with the integration of European outsider into the dramatic landscape of East Africa. It is a story of rejection and enchantment. Two sisters, one beautiful, one plain, return unmarried from their adventures in the great to their parents` hotel on the mountain, where they are caught up in
Portrait of A Turkish Family
Portrait of a Turkish Family is a masterpiece of memoir writing. Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a harem, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother was an eccentric
Syria – Through Writers` Eyes
Syria: Through Writers` Eyes is a carefully chosen selection of literary extracts that capture the allure, culture and history of Syria.The historical wealth of Syria is triumphantly visible and diverse. It is one of the best-kept secrets of the passionate Mediterranean traveller. That it is also a remarkably hospitable country, where the way of life
Visit To Don Otavio
Mexico, through the eyes of Sybille Bedford is a country of passion and paradox: arid desert and shrieking jungle, harsh sun and deep shadow, violence and sentimentality. In her frank descriptions of the horrors of travel – through bug-infested jungle, trapped in a broiling stationary train, or in a bus with a dead fish slapping
Begums, Thugs & White Mughals
Fanny Parkes, who lived in India between 1822 and 1846, was the ideal travel writer – courageous, indefatigably curious and determinedly independent. Her delightful journal traces her journey from prim memsahib, married to a minor civil servant of the Raj, to eccentric, sitar-playing Indophile, fluent in Urdu, critical of British rule and passionate in her
Croatia – Through Writer`s Eyes
Croatia – Through Writers’ Eyes” contains work from some of the greatest travel writers of our time, even finding space to hold some of literary great Evelyn Waugh’s musings on this amazing country. With its unspoiled dramatic coast, Croatia is a place of bewitching beauty, one of the hidden jewels of the Mediterranean. Yet most
Chantemesle
This lyrical evocation of growing up on the banks of the Seine was originally published in 1964. In this minutely observed landscape, where even the wind is a character in its own right, we meet blind Battouflet, the singing hermit of the hillside, solemn Clotilde, the author`s first girlfriend who lives in a chateau in
Isle of Wight Coastal Path – 80 Miles
John Merrill Walking Guides are lovingly written, designed, printed and bound by the man himself. Over the last 38 years, John Merrill has walked over 190,000 miles, wearing out 106 pairs of boots in the process, and has completed a remarkable number of marathon walks. Remarkably, he has written over 300 guidebooks to his walks.
View of the World: Selected Journalism
A selection of the best travel writing by Norman Lewis which makes a wonderful introduction to his work. He is particularly powerful on the plight of the indigenous people of Brazil
Munroist`s Companion
A compendium of articles describing the history, theory, philosophy and present practice of Munro climbing.
A Cure for Serpents: An Italian Doctor in North Africa
The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland, provided him with opportunities and experiences rarely given to a European. He brings us stories of noble chieftains and celebrated courtesans, of Berber princes and Tuareg entertainers, of giant
The Honoured Society – The Sicilian Mafia Observed
The Honoured Society describes how the US army returned the Mafia to power in 1944, after Mussolini came close to destroying them. It looks at the Mafia in their homeland – how in attempting to preserve Sicily for the Sicilians in the face of countless invasions it infiltrated every aspect of the island`s life, corrupting
A Chance in a Million? Scottish Avalanches.
Fully updated edition of the classic handbook, covering all aspects of safety and procedure. The history of avalanches in the British Isles is covered in detail.
