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 study of the way in which Vesuvius and the excavations in the Bay of Naples in 1738 and afterwards became a potent political and emotional vehicle for artists, intellectuals, Grand Tourist... read more
Breathtaking shots from the Himalayas to the Dolomites, via Africa, Patagonia, Alaska... with suitably lofty quotations (Dante, Byron, Austen, Nietzsche et al) alongside them.