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Photo-Essay: Central Asia

More than half of my ‘passionate travellers’ could not take photographs because they made their journeys before photography had been invented. And although Alexandra David-Neel could have taken pictures in 1924 when she crossed the Tibetan Plateau on her

What Did Past Travellers Carry in Their Medical Kits

Illness while on a long journey can be tricky, especially in remote places with few, if any, medical facilities. Most adventurous travellers pack an emergency medical kit. How much worse it must have been in the past, before vaccinations, health

Photo Essay: Egypt and Africa

If you are already reading Passionate Travellers: Around the World on 21 Incredible Journeys in History, you will know that the book is divided into geographical regions, that it spans over 2,000 years of history, and is illustrated with a

Straw Sandals, Foldaway Boats and a Penny-Farthing

Straw sandals, fold-away boats, a penny-farthing bicycle, camels, yaks, ponies, even a cow: just a few of the means by which my ‘passionate travellers’ made their incredible journeys across vast distances. We are a migratory species. For millennia, our ancestors

Travel Snacks of the Past

As we tuck a packet of nuts and raisins, a chewy bar or a handful of dried fruit into our pocket before a journey, we follow an ancient tradition of travellers. But they had more need of it than most

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A cultural history of the power of stories in the comedy and tragedy of human affairs.

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“An unusually perceptive eye guide a lucid, candid and entertaining narrative through a series of adventures ... an alluring and accurate account.” The Australian

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An illustrated ethnography of tourism and culture change on Marinduque Island in the Philippines.

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