The men in your family could be descendants of Genghis Khan. Genetic scientists* were astonished when, in 2003, they discovered traces of a single paternal ancestor in 8% of a large sample of men drawn from across the whole
Being an ardent traveller myself, I was naturally impatient to step out upon the journeys of my ‘passionate travellers’. But self-discipline was necessary. Though in many cases I was already familiar with the landscapes they traversed, before describing their incredible
We have been global for millennia. We were ‘global’ thousands of years before air travel and international corporations, or as far as the ‘globe’ was known which amounts to the same thing in courage and curiosity. People and their
My previous post explained ways in which ‘passionate travellers’ raised funds to undertake their journeys. But what happens if you become destitute en route a long way from home? Today, long-distance travellers and backpackers may cover their costs by seeking sponsorship
By the time I’d written Passionate Travellers, I’d read more than a hundred travel accounts going back more than 2,000 years – that is the time span of the book – and a recurrent question in my mind was:
