A Book of Traveller's TalesDavid Livingstone on being attacked by a lion in Africa, Cecil Beaton on an evening with the Rolling Stones in Marrakesh, Roman Emperor Hannibal on crossing the Alps, Henry James on the Epsom Derby, John Steinbeck on trying to get out of a small town in upstate New York ... these are some of the more than 300 writers and subjects represented in this veritable Who's Who of travellers from 430 B.C. to the 1980s. |
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Page 351
... began to beat upon it , and at the sound a multitude of animals of divers kinds began to come down from the hill , such as apes , monkeys , and many other animals having faces like men , to the number of some three thousand and took up ...
... began to beat upon it , and at the sound a multitude of animals of divers kinds began to come down from the hill , such as apes , monkeys , and many other animals having faces like men , to the number of some three thousand and took up ...
Page 460
... began to gnaw apace : but whether it was best to returne or go on , we began to doubt , suspecting treason in the Pilot more and more : but the poore olde Indian ever assured us that it was but a little farther , and but this one ...
... began to gnaw apace : but whether it was best to returne or go on , we began to doubt , suspecting treason in the Pilot more and more : but the poore olde Indian ever assured us that it was but a little farther , and but this one ...
Page 494
... began screeching , and the men just stared . Here was a white man with twelve Yankee dollars in his pocket and more than $ 500 worth of camera gear slung over his shoulders , hauling a typewriter , grinning , sweating , no hope of ...
... began screeching , and the men just stared . Here was a white man with twelve Yankee dollars in his pocket and more than $ 500 worth of camera gear slung over his shoulders , hauling a typewriter , grinning , sweating , no hope of ...
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Africa American arrived asked beautiful called camels canoe CECIL BEATON clothes Copyright crossed D. H. LAWRENCE dark desert dressed drink East England English traveller ERIC NEWBY expedition explorer eyes face feet fire fish Gobi Desert hair Hakluyt Society hand head horses IBN BATTUTA India Indian island JAN MORRIS JOHN JONATHAN RABAN journey kill King ladies Lake land live London looked LUDOVICO DI VARTHEMA miles morning mountains natives never night North novelist ODORIC OF PORDENONE passed PETER FLEMING quaggas reached Reprinted by permission returned river road rock round seemed seen ship side sight sleep South stone streets thing THOMAS CORYATE thought Tibet told took town trans trees turned voyage walked women wood writer young