part 2 of the never-completed trilogy, the ghosts of Austo-Hungary, again the fresh experiences of youth put in perspective by the deep knowledge he had gained when writing many years later.

The old Islamic lands from Tunisia to Egypt, Arabia and Crimea, the keen eye of an outsider with deep knowledge and love of the culture, chasing remnants of the medieval glory of that culture found in

From Peking through central Asia to Kashmir, an extraordinary journey made in the thirties, a real feel for the ancient way of life in this inaccessible area.

Not a guide book, more like having a holiday, but just happening to know a lot about this most fascinating city. Written in the fifties, I found it better than more recent books.

From western China through central asia & northern Iran, portrait of an extraordinary area where ancient cultures met and hold on, seldom seen, in complex defiance of stereotypes

Travel in southern africa, on the trail of an ancient link to the wider world, where history was written

a series of essays on the Black Sea, particularly the Ukraine, dressed up as a continuous book

Mongolia - an empty waste? - a place with a past, where the traditional nomadic life has survived & once expanded to rule the world. And SO well written, hard to put down.