Search Results for ‘Saudi Arabia’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 4 matches found

Bad Lands

Tony Wheeler, founder of Lonely Planet, travelled through some of the world’s most repressive and dangerous regimes. Wheeler says, “When Mr Bush produced his ‘Axis of Evil’ list, my first thought was...

Crossing the Sands

Thesiger is first of all a photographer and then a writer. He had to be convinced to write Arabian Sands by someone who had seen these photos. Extracts from this book accompany and comment the pictures...

Mumbai to Mecca

“Mumbai to Mecca” is an incredible travelogue, reminiscent of the journeys written by such travellers as Richard Burton, who saw Mecca, but through different eyes, and with a different faith.
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The Zanzibar Chest - A Memoir of Love and War

"We should never have come!" so said Aidan Hartley's father in his final days, rising from a bed made of mountain cedar, lashed with thongs of rawhide from an oryx shot many years before. His words...