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TRAVELLERS' TALES

by Frank Herrmann; Michael Allen

Published by Castlereagh Press. 1st. 1999

Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. A travel book with a difference: a collection of stories all written by members of the Travellers Club, here they recount some of their more adventurous experiences as diplomats (which many of them are), explorers, sailors, lawyers or simply travellers. Edited by Frank Herrmann and Michael Allen. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xiv and 299 pages.

Light shelf-wear to base of spine else a fine copy in like dustwrapper.

ISBN: 1901825019
Stock no. 1830826

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Contents

  • FOREWORD by Frank Herrmann and Michael Allen
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ARCHMOBILE by Terry Waite
  • A LIESURELY CROSSING by Peter Mackenzie-Young
  • A TIMBUKTU PERSPECTIVE by George Webb
  • KHARAKHOTO REVISITED By John Carswell
  • MR KHATIB by William Dale
  • THE BRIDGES OF FLORENCE by Anthony Forster
  • THE OTHER TRAVELLERS CLUB by Michael Allen
  • TROUBLE WITH BEARS by Christopher Brasher
  • THE PROFESSOR ON THE ROOF by Graham Binns
  • NEVER LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH - OR AT LEAST N OT ITS TAIL - by 'Dwin Bramall
  • ROAD RAGE IN THE HINDU KUSH by Hugh Carless
  • THE ROMANS HAD A WORD FOR IT by Michael Pike
  • HUNTING WITH FALCONS by Wilfred Thesiger
  • NOT A GENTLEMAN by Peter Wordie
  • VISITING THE GENERAL by Harold Elletson
  • MAYBE YOU DO IT ALL THE TIME by John Morgan
  • SHAMSHUDDIN - A TRIBUTE by Peter Francis
  • TEACH YOURSELF SOCOTRAN by Michael Tomkinson
  • A GREAT LITTLE TAILOR by Sebastian Guinness
  • LIKE MAGIC by William Dale
  • AN INNOCENT ABROAD by Frank Herrmann
  • KARACHI by Charles Webb
  • MUNICH CRISIS 1938 by Peter Mackenzie-Young
  • UNTRODDEN TERRITORY by Justin Staples
  • RECOGNIZING THE TALENT, BUT NOT THE MAN by Richard Tallboys
  • ON SAKHALIN by Simon Winchester
  • ON RESUMING DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH PERSIA By Denis Wright
  • THE DIEPPE RAID by Gerald Le Blount Kidd
  • MEDICAL TRIPLES by David Hay
  • THE NUMBER ONE TWISTER by Leslie Fielding
  • ALL CHANGE IN ARABIA, AND YET NO CHANGE by David Heard
  • EL TATIO AND THE ATACAMA DESERT by Robert Ely
  • THE TSAR'S WINE CELLAR by John Morgan
  • BISHOP REPORTING by Edward Bishop
  • HOLD-UP ON THE KABUL RIVER by Hugh Carless
  • INTERVIEWING AN IDOL by Michael Allen
  • GOING PUBLIC by Frank Herrmann
  • THE FROGMAN'S WATCH by Henry Brownrigg
  • THE SQUEEZING OF KING FAROUK by Anthony Forster
  • A BROKEN DOCK, A WRECKED SHOP AND A LUCKY BREAK by Peter Mackenzie-Young
  • MAGIC MAN OF THE HIMALAYAS by Gordon Brook-Shepherd
  • VOLCANOES by Simon Winchester
  • BERLIN EAST AND WEST: 1973-75 by Peregrine Rhodes
  • A COLONIAL RELIC by Michael Allen
  • THE YANGTSE INCIDENT by John Cottesloe
  • THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS by Peter Wordie
  • PRINCE FOR A DAY by Anthony Bailey
  • A SLOW CHANGE OF CONTINENTS by Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • A QUESTION TOO FAR by Maurice Fooks
  • THE CROCODILE PRINCESS by Leslie Fielding
  • HARDLY SHIKAR by George Webb
  • THE ERUPTION OF VILLARRICA by Robert Ely
  • MAN OVERBOARD by Edward Bishop
  • THE TRIUMPH OF SANTA CLAUS by Bill Purdue
  • ENCOUNTERS WITH GEORGE BROWN by Andrew Stark
  • THE SECRET SAGA OF THE THREE Ms by Frank Herrmann
  • A ROMANTIC INTERLUDE by Michael Allen
  • A TRAVELLERS TALE OF TRIAL AND TRIBULATION IN TAIF by St John Armitage
  • A FISHY TALE - BUT TRUE by John Morgan
  • PEKING AFTER THE PICNIC by Douglas Hurd
  • 150 YHEARS OF BBC EXPERIENCE by Robert Elphick
  • A SEAFARING STORY by Richard Tallboys
  • THE CAPTURE OF ASOLO by Anthony Forster
  • AN UNLUCKY ENCOUNTER IN SALAZAR'S PORTUGAL by R Barry O'Brien
  • A RAISED FINGER by William Dale
  • EAST MEETS WEST by John Towner
  • UNTOUCHED BY HAND by Peter Willey
  • A FLYING VISIT TO THE NGORONGORO CRATER IN THE SERENGETI by James Prentice
  • SWITCHING CHILDREN by Maurice Fooks
  • BOROBUDUR by Simon Winchester
  • FELLOW TRAVELLERS by Hugh Carless
  • FINNISH MISCONCEPTIONS by John Staples
  • CREATURES THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT by Peter Hunt
  • SUPPER WITH WALTER MITTY by Michael Allen
  • WHEN DID THE UK ACTUALLY JOIN EUROPE? By Robert Elphick
  • ACROSS THE CHANNEL AND INTO THE TREES by Leslie Fielding
  • COFFEE EVERYWHERE IN ARABIA by David Heard
  • DINING OUT by Peter Francis
  • GETTING AWAY FROM IT ALL by Edward Bishop
  • IN AFRICA, THINK BIG by Terry Waite
  • A NOTE ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE TRAVELLERS CLUB by Graham Binns
  • THE AUTHORS, full titles and brief Biographies

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