The Great Game has not changed though the players have: Keay looks at the history of this contested and remote area and at those that have roamed its wildernesses.
A biography of the city founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, once the largest city in the world and for a thousand years the capital of Egypt. Looks at the modern period too.
The stone circles of Britain and Ireland: their location in a landscapes, construction, composition, chronology. An excellent illustrated guide, by region, with maps.