They had money to last them a few months and a Fiat to take them where they were going, but above all they were equipped with the certainty that by hook or by crook they would reach their destination, and that there would be unanticipated adventures, curious companionship, and sudden illumination along the way. They were not disappointed, and neither will be readers of this luminous travel book fashioned from Bouvier's journals. The two friends support themselves by writing and painting in Istanbul; are spellbound by the brilliance of winter in Tabriz; take a side trip to rebellious Kurdistan; and find ever more ingenious ways to keep their increasingly battered vehicle on the road as they head to Afghanistan. Along the way, they spend wild nights listening to Gypsy musicians, trading poetry with tramps, and entertaining their companions with song and an accordion.A journey through a region of Asia that has since fallen prey to violence, The Way of the World is also a journey toward the self. "You think you are making a trip," says Bouvier, "but soon it is making you—or unmaking you."

    The author was at the peak of his earning power as a movie star when he suddenly quit. He walked out on Hollywood, walked out of a shattered marriage, defied the courts, broke as an outlaw, set sail with his four children in the schooner Wanderer--bound for the South Seas. His attempt to escape launched his autobiography. It is the candid, sometimes painfully revealing confession of a man who scrutinized his every self-defeat and self-betrayal in the unblinking light of conscience.

    Beautifully illustrated with over 300 contemporary and historical photographs as well as dozens of paintings, The End of the Game is a legendary workvividly telling the story of explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters whose quests have changed the face of Africa forever.

    Census results.

    He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War with The Odyssey always at the foot of his bunk. Having settled in Malta after the war, he took his small yacht in search of his hero Ulysses. Starting at Troy, taking into account the winds that Ulysses would have encountered, he checked capes, islands, caves and harbours against Homer's description of Ulysses' landfall; all are described and identified. He provides convincing arguments for the locations of the Land of the Lotus Eaters, the Cyclops' Cave, Circe's Island and the beach upon which Ulysses was washed up naked at the feet of Nausicaa and many others. This book will appeal to the armchair traveller, the literary detective and all who love Homer's great poem. It gives the chronology of Ulysses' voyage, and is illustrated with photographs and maps.

    Spencer has stated her premise. And this is the story of how this spirited woman and her family triumphed over difficult living conditions, a wearing climate, a primitive native society, and mishaps too numerous to mention, all of which she bore with unfailing good humor.African Creeks I Have Been Up has quality and style. The author's point of view is temperate and refreshing. She reflects in her letters honest information about her surroundings -- the shortcomings and virtues of the Africans. The opinions contain no hint of prejudice. She accepts the Africans more or less in the loving, critical, but tolerant way a mother regards her children. Her own keen perception therefore gives this book a unique quality, setting it aside from other accounts of the problems of an emerging Africa.

    

    Collection of three Rumer Godden Novels

    Land of Tempest - Travels in Patagonia, is a record of four expeditions made in four successive seasons, the only time when such ventures are remotely practicable i a part of the less discovered world where the weather is the main obstacle ti any sort of activity.These expeditions made useful botanical and geological investigations, established the existence of a hitherto disputed volcano, and included some rewarding mountaineering in the unclimbed peaks of Tierra del Fuego, but the main point of the journey was to prove they could be done in the face of driving rain and snow.The leader's informal, warmly human record, sharing all the setbacks and minor triumphs, makes first-class reading for the armchair traveller.

    What are the Japanese like today, seventeen years after Hiroshima? That is what I wanted to find out and I believed that the only way to do so was to live in Japanese style with Japanese families."This is what Nina Epton did.

    Not for the traveller who wants up-to-date information, but rather for those who seek more in-depth information, this is a work that can be enjoyed in any edition, not necessarily the latest.

    

    A guidebook to the Disneyland of 1963 featuring Main Street, Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, and Adventureland.