NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God’s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico’s lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid in Zanzibar ...
Jabrin The mighty 17th century Jabrin Fort is one of the most beautiful castles of its kind in the Sultanat of Oman. The owner of this splendid building, that is more like a palace than a fort, was noble scholar, Imam Bilarab Bin Sultan, who in 1670 moved his government headquarters to Jabrin. The interior of the castle with its furnishings and every day objects gives a strong impression of ...
‘I had never planned to become a Savannah baboon when I grew up; instead I assumed I would become a mountain gorilla,’ writes Robert Sapolsky in this riveting chronicle of a scientist’s coming of age in remote Africa. Upon graduating from college, a booksmart and naive Sapolsky leaves the comforts of the Northeastern United States for the very first time, to join a baboon ...
This is the Ernest Hemingway’s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway’s well-known interest in – and fascination with – big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an ...
“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.” — ERNEST HEMINGWAY In the winter of ...
