Just about everything I would want to say about this excellent book is in JT’s review in the Travel Literature blog, but I will just add one thought. As a Persian scholar and someone who has travelled widely in the … Continue reading →
If you are interested in the questions central to this book – how and why human minds have evolved – but are not closely in touch with the latest academic and scientific thinking on the subject, be warned: this book … Continue reading →
For many British people there is a blank period of history covering the decade and a half from the end of the Second World War. In south-east Asia the Federation of Malaya, as it was then, gained independence in 1957; … Continue reading →
What do you know about Bhutan? Probably not very much, apart perhaps from it being a Himalayan kingdom somewhere up around Nepal and Tibet. Even now Bhutan is a remote and inaccessible corner of the world. There is no British … Continue reading →
Local information for Vallouise, Ailefroide, les Vigneaux Overview The Écrins region and National Park lies to the south-east of Grenoble in the département of Hautes-Alpes. Two main valleys cut into the massif. The Vénéon, in which la Bérade is the … Continue reading →
You can see larger versions of the pictures on this page in the Slideshow. Refuge du Sélé The refuge The refuge is a curious warehouse-like structure perched on a bit of levelled ground 50 metres or so above the valley … Continue reading →
If you’ve reached this page with a search engine and don’t want to read through all the detail, please go to the brief report in the "Logbook", which also has photos. Introduction This was going to be an important trip … Continue reading →
On this page is my brief report with the basic facts of the trip and most of the pictures. The Refuges and Huts page has information about the four huts I stayed in or visited. Local Info is just that. … Continue reading →
Reading Ishiguro’s novels out of sequence – this is the second to be published – possibly makes it harder to give a fair assessment, as expectations are already set. The acclaimed quality of his writing is as evident here as … Continue reading →