From its invention in 1817 to its present-day revival - the ultimate sustainable machine that enabled colonial conquest, gentrification and a reduction of rural inbreeding...
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.
The world is as divided about cold water swimming as it is about the pronunciation of 'tomato'... One person's heaven is another's miserable hell; the side that is thought mad by the other h... read more
The good, the bad and the ugly... Dorothy Parker, John Ruskin, Paul Bowles, Martha Gellhorn, Graham Greene and many others sources season this delicious mix of the comic, the ecstatic and th... read more