What did travellers of the past bring back from their journeys in distant places? I happily accept the title, Queen of Clutter. And I have no intention of being anything less. To pick a way through the jumbled rooms
Passionate Travellers’ Souvenirs
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