He finally finds the peace and tranquility which come with self-knowledge when he meets and studies with the great sage Sri Ramana Maharishi.

    Dramatically conjuring the beauty of Israel's countryside, In the Steps of the Master also evokes the all-consuming passions and deep-rooted mysteries of Jerusalem -- and while much has changed, as Morton says, the essential nature of the sites he visits has not.

    In capturing and describing an English landscape and people hitherto unconsidered, he influenced thinking and attitudes and helped formulate a public consensus for change that led to the formation of the welfare state. English Journey expresses Priestley's deep love of his native country and teaches us much about the human condition and the nature of Englishness. A fully illustrated special anniversary edition was published by William Heinemann in 1984, and in 1997 came the Folio edition which was a version of the 1984 edition with minor emendations. It contains many evocative photographs and an introduction by Margaret Drabble.

    

    Jane Carey, who is the protagonist, finds love, a deserted island, and struggles with civilization, and yet on her mind is always the iridescent merry nature. Lost Island is undoubtedly Follett's masterpiece in which she develops her themes of love, escape, nature worship, and takes the reader on a romantic adventure into her world.

    On horseback, she crosses Kirghizstan as far as the T'ien Shan range (the Celestial Mountains ). With makeshift skis, she climbs a mountain of 5000 metres on the Chinese border. She explores Tashkent, Samarkand and Bokhara and travels down the Amu Daria. On a camel and in glacial winds she crosses, solo, the Desert of Red Sands to the east of the Aral Sea, avoiding dangerous checkpoints.

    Nesbitt was a mining engineer. In 1928 he made an adventurous journey, of which this book tells the story, through districts in Abyssinia which were among those parts of Africa least known to the outside world. No European to attempt the journey before had survived, but Nesbitt succeeded in accomplishing it with the loss of only three members of his party. Nesbitt placed at the disposal of the Royal Geo¬graphical Society many notes, sketches, and maps, and in 1931 the Council of the Society awarded him the Murchison Grant in recognition of his notable feat. His death was strangely ironical, since he died in a Dutch air liner crash in Switzerland on his way back from Abyssinia in 1935.