Here Fitzroy Maclean recounts his extraordinary adventures in Soviet Central Asia, in the Western Desert, where he specialized in hair-raising commando-style raids behind enemy lines, and with Tito's partisans during the last months of the German occupation of Yugoslavia. An enthralling narrative, brilliantly told, "Eastern Approaches" is also a vivid personal view of episodes that have already become part of history.

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    Morton 496 pages. Originally published in 1933. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. "This companion volume to in search of Scotland is the record of a long and leisurely journey. In the course of it I have shaken up the dust of history and I have tried also to put into words the impression made by Scotland upon the mind of a stranger who, for some reason or other, always feels happy over the border" Contents include: I go to Scotland again - I enter Galloway Describes Kirkcudbright and various other things - In which I drive into Galloway - Describes how I meet the tartan weavers of Kilbarchan - How I leave Mull - I walk the Corrieyarrick - Tells how I go to John O'Groats - In which I decide to walk the Larig Ghru - I go to sea in an Aberdeen trawler - Tells how the honours of Scotland were saved - In which I tell you something about food.

    It was published in the United States from 1936 to 1966, during the Jim Crow era, when discrimination against non-whites was widespread. Although pervasive racial discrimination and black poverty limited ownership of cars among African Americans, the emerging black middle class became car owners. Many blacks took to driving, in part to avoid segregation on public transportation. As the writer George Schuyler put it in 1930, "all Negroes who can do so purchase an automobile as soon as possible in order to be free of discomfort, discrimination, segregation and insult."[1] Black Americans employed as salesmen, entertainers, and athletes also traveled frequently for work purposes.African American travelers faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences, such as white-owned businesses refusing to serve them or repair their vehicles, being refused accommodation or food by white-owned hotels, and threats of physical violence and forcible expulsion from whites-only "sundown towns". New York mailman and travel agent Victor H. Green published The Negro Motorist Green Book to tackle such problems and "to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trip more enjoyable."[2]From a New York-focused first edition published in 1936, he expanded the work to cover much of North America including most of the United States and parts of Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean, including Bermuda. The Green Book became "the bible of black travel during Jim Crow",[3] enabling black travelers to find lodgings, businesses, and gas stations that would serve them along the road. Outside the African American community, however, it was little known. Shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed the types of racial discrimination that had made the book necessary, Green ceased publication and the work fell into obscurity. Interest in it has revived in the early 21st century in connection with studies of black travel during the Jim Crow era.Continue reading at Wikipedia