Index

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Abu Dhabi, (i)

Afghanistan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Baltit, (i)

Bamiyan, (i)

Chaghcharan (Chakcharan), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Chalt fort, (i)

Gumbad-i-Kabus, (i)

Kabul, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Mazar-i-Sharif, (i)

minaret of Djam, (i)

Shibar, (i)

Africa, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Maghreb, (i)

North Africa, (i), (ii), (iii)

West Africa, (i)

see also Congo; Egypt; Kenya; Liberia

Alaska, (i)

Amazon, river, (i)

Anker, Conrad, (i)

Antarctic, (i)

Arabia, (i), (ii)

Arctic, (i), (ii)

Arkansas City, (i)

Arnold, Matthew, (i), (ii)

Auden, W. H., (i)

Azerbaijan, (i)

Bates, Henry Walter, (i)

‘Battle of Flowers’, (i)

Bedford, Sybille, (i), (ii), (iii)

Pleasures and Landscapes, (i)

A Visit to Don Otavio, (i)

Bell, Gertrude, (i), (ii), (iii)

Persian Pictures, (i)

Betjeman, John, (i), (ii)

Shell Guide to Cornwall, (i)

Bird, Isabella, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, (i)

Blixen, Karen (Isak Dinesen), (i), (ii)

Out of Africa, (i)

Böcklin, Arnold, (i)

Bonington, Sir Chris, (i)

Bouvier, Nicolas, (i), (ii), (iii)

The Way of the World, (i)

Bowles, Paul, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Without Stopping, (i)

Bowman, W. E., (i), (ii)

The Ascent of Rum Doodle, (i)

Brecht, Bertolt, (i)

Briongos, Ana, (i), (ii)

Black on Black, (i)

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, (i)

Bryson, Bill, (i)

The Lost Continent, (i)

Bulgaria, (i)

Burroughs, William, (i)

Burton, Richard, (i), (ii), (iii)

Butcher, Tim, (i)

Byron, Robert, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

The Road to Oxiana, (i)

Calvino, Italo, (i)

Invisible Cities, (i)

Cambyses, King of Persia, (i)

Canetti, Elias, (i), (ii)

Capa, Robert, (i)

Cape Horn, (i)

Cape Sunium, (i)

Cape Verde Islands, (i), (ii)

Cévennes, (i)

Chaliapin, Feodor, (i)

Charlemagne, Emperor, (i)

Chartres Cathedral, (i)

Chatwin, Bruce, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

In Patagonia, (i)

What Am I Doing Here?, (i)

Chenier, André, (i)

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, (i), (ii), (iii)

The Worst Journey in the World, (i)

Chicago, (i)

China, (i)

Cultural Revolution, (i)

see also Tartary

Chingiz Khan, see Genghis Khan

Chukchi Sea, (i), (ii)

Churchill, Winston, (i)

Clausewitz, Carl von, (i)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, (i)

Congo, (i), (ii)

Conrad, Joseph, (i), (ii)

Heart of Darkness, (i), (ii)

Constantine XI, Emperor, (i)

Constantinople, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Cooper, Artemis, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Copland, Aaron, (i)

cormorant boats, (i)

Cornwall, (i)

Crockett, William J., (i)

Curzon, Lord, (i)

The Pamirs and the Source of the Oxus, (i)

Dalai Lama, (i)

Damascus, (i), (ii)

‘Dance of the Bee’, (i)

Darius, King of Persia, (i), (ii)

Danziger, Nick, (i)

Darwin, Charles, (i)

David-Néel, Alexandra, (i), (ii), (iii)

My Journey to Lhasa, (i)

Davis, Wade, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Into the Silence, (i)

Dickens, Charles, (i)

Dinesen, Isak, see Blixen, Karen

Diocletian, Emperor, (i)

Doughty, Charles, (i), (ii)

Travels in Arabia Deserta, (i)

Douglas, Norman, (i), (ii)

Siren Land, (i)

Dumas, Alexander, (i)

Durrell, Lawrence, (i)

Eberhardt, Isabelle, (i), (ii), (iii)

Dans L’Ombre Chaude d’Islam, (i), (ii)

Egypt, (i)

Eiger, the, (i)

Eland Books, (i)

Eliot, George, (i)

Elliot, Jason, (i), (ii), (iii)

An Unexpected Light, (i)

Euripides, (i)

Eustratius, Emperor, (i)

Facaros, Dana, and Michael Pauls, (i), (ii), (iii)

Cadogan Guide to Rome, (i)

féticheuse, Congolese, (i)

Flaubert, Gustave, (i), (ii)

Fleming, Peter, (i), (ii), (iii)

News from Tartary, (i)

France

see Cévennes; Paris

François I, King of France, (i)

Frater, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Chasing the Monsoon, (i)

Frederick Barbarossa, Emperor, (i)

Fuller, Alexandra, (i), (ii)

Scribbling the Cat, (i)

Fussel, Paul, (i), (ii)

Galapagos Islands, (i)

Gellhorn, Martha, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Travels with Myself and Another, (i)

Genghis (Genghiz, Chingiz) Khan, (i), (ii), (iii)

Germany, (i)

German Democratic Republic, (i)

Gimlette, John, (i), (ii), (iii)

At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, (i)

Ginsberg, Allen, (i)

Goba people, (i)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, (i), (ii), (iii)

Italian Journey, (i)

Gorky, Maxim, (i)

Grand Teton National Park, (i)

Grant, General Ulysses S, (i)

Greece, (i)

Kardamyli, (i)

Litotes, (i)

Patras, (i)

Greene, Graham, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Journey Without Maps, (i)

Grosvenor, Rosamund, (i)

Hanbury-Tenison, Robin, (i)

Hari Rud river, (i), (ii)

Harrer, Heinrich, (i)

The White Spider, (i)

Heat-Moon, William Least, (i), (ii), (iii)

Blue Highways, (i)

Heiney, Paul, (i), (ii), (iii)

One Wild Song, (i)

Heliogabalus, Emperor, (i)

Heliopolis, ruins of, (i)

Hemingway, Ernest, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

For Whom the Bell Tolls, (i), (ii)

True at First Light, (i)

Heraclitus, (i)

Herodotus, (i), (ii)

Herzog, Maurice, (i), (ii)

Annapurna, (i)

Hobbes, Thomas, (i)

Holmes, Richard, (i), (ii)

Footsteps, (i)

Homer, (i), (ii)

Hong Kong Chinese, (i)

Humboldt, Alexander von, (i)

Hunt, Sir John, (i), (ii), (iii)

The Ascent of Everest, (i)

Hussein, Saddam, (i)

Huxley, Elspeth, (i), (ii), (iii)

The Flame Trees of Thika, (i)

Huxley, Gervas, (i)

Huxley, T. H., (i)

Icknield Way, (i)

India, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Chamba, (i)

Cherrapunji, (i)

Mustagh Pass, (i)

Indo-China, (i)

Iran, see Persia

Iraq, (i)

Italy

Capri, (i), (ii)

Naples, (i)

Punta Campanella, (i)

see also Rome; Venice

Ivan the Terrible, (i)

Iyer, Pico, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

The Lady and the Monk, (i)

Japan, (i)

Jefferson, Thomas, (i)

John Paul I, Pope, (i)

Johnson, Samuel, (i)

Kapus´cis ński, Ryszard, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

The Shadow of the Sun, (i)

Travels with Herodotus, (i)

Kassabova, Kapka, (i)

Keay, John, (i)

Kenya, (i)

Kerouac, Jack, (i), (ii), (iii)

On the Road, (i)

Kerr, Michael, (i)

kif-smokers, (i)

Kinglake, Alexander, (i), (ii), (iii)

Eothen, (i), (ii)

Kingsley, Charles, (i)

Kingsley, Mary, (i), (ii)

Travels in West Africa, (i)

Kipling, Rudyard, (i), (ii)

American Notes, (i)

Kublai Khan, (i)

Lake Constance, (i)

‘Lake of the Lilies, The’, (i)

Lake Victoria, (i)

Lawrence, T. E., (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Seven Pillars of Wisdom, (i)

Le Corbusier, (i)

Leigh Fermor, Patrick, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

The Broken Road, (i)

Mani, (i), (ii)

A Time of Gifts, (i)

Leopold, King of the Belgians, (i)

Lewis, Norman, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Naples’ (i), (ii)

Lewis, Isle of, (i)

Liberia, (i)

Livingstone, David, (i)

Lopez, Barry, (i), (ii)

Arctic Dreams, (i), (ii)

Luther, Martin, (i)

McCullin, Don, (i)

Macfarlane, Robert, (i), (ii), (iii)

The Old Ways, (i)

Maclean, Sir Fitzroy, (i), (ii)

Eastern Approaches, (i)

Mackintosh-Smith, Tim, (i)

Mallory, George, (i), (ii)

Maillart, Ella (Kini) (i), (ii)

Mann, Thomas, (i)

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor, (i)

Marozzi, Justin, (i), (ii)

Masters, John, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Bugles and a Tiger, (i)

Matthiesen, Peter, (i), (ii)

The Snow Leopard, (i)

Maximilian, Emperor, (i)

Maziad bin Hamdan, Sheikh, (i)

Mexico, (i), (ii)

Chapala, (i)

Guadalajara, (i)

Sabinas Hidalgo, (i)

Sangre de Cristo mountains, (i)

Michael VIII the Liberator, Emperor, (i)

Michelangelo, (i)

Middleton, Robert, (i)

Mikkelsen, Ejnar, (i), (ii)

Lost in the Arctic, (i)

Mikoyan, Anastasi, (i)

Miller, Henry, (i), (ii), (iii)

The Colossus of Maroussi, (i)

Mississippi river, (i)

Morris, Jan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Venice, (i)

Mosambolahun, blacksmith of, (i)

Mount Annapurna, (i)

Mount Everest, (i), (ii), (iii)

Mount Gurla Mandhata, (i), (ii)

Mount Kailas, (i), (ii)

Mount Kenia, (i)

Mount Kilimanjaro, (i), (ii)

Mount Kinchinjunga, (i)

Mount McLoughlin, (i)

Mount Mézenc, (i)

Mount San Constanzo, (i)

Mount Shasta, (i)

Muhammad, Prophet, (i)

Murphy, Dervla, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Full Tilt, (i)

Murray, W. H., (i)

Muscat, (i)

Mussolini, Benito, (i)

Naipaul, V. S., (i)

An Area of Darkness, (i)

Naples, (i)

Nelson, Admiral Lord, (i)

Nepal, (i)

Nero, Emperor, (i)

Netherlands, the, (i)

Newby, Eric, (i), (ii)

A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, (i)

Nicolson, Harold, (i)

O’Hanlon, Redmond, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Congo Journey, (i)

In Trouble Again, (i)

Oman, (i)

Ondaatje, Sir Christopher, (i)

One Thousand and One Nights, (i)

Ottoman Empire, (i), (ii)

Oxus river, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Pakistan, (i)

Hunza Valley, (i), (ii)

Palestine, (i)

Palmyra, (i)

Paraguay, (i)

Paris, (i)

Park, Mungo, (i), (ii)

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, (i)

Patagonia, (i)

Paul, Jenny Balfour, (i), (ii)

Deeper Than Indigo, (i)

Pauls, Michael, see Facaros, Dana, and Michael Pauls

Persepolis, (i)

Persia, (i), (ii)

Philby, Harry St John Bridger, (i)

Phnom Penh, (i)

Piper, John, (i)

Polo, Marco, (i)

Raban, Jonathan, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

Driving Home, (i)

Ransome, Arthur, (i)

Rider Haggard, H., (i)

Rio Negro, (i)

Rome, (i), (ii)

see also Vatican City

Rum Doodle, (i)

Ruskin, John, (i)

Sackville-West, Vita, (i), (ii)

Twelve Days in Persia, (i)

Sa’di, (i)

St Boniface, (i)

St Constantine the Great, (i)

St Enodoc, (i)

St Peter, (i)

Saladin, (i)

Salalah, (i)

Sandwich Islands, (i)

Sattin, Anthony, (i)

Schalansky, Judith, (i), (ii), (iii)

Atlas of Remote Islands, (i)

Schubert, Franz, (i)

Scott, Captain Robert Falcon, (i), (ii)

Shackleton, Sir Ernest, (i), (ii)

South, (i)

Shannon Island, (i)

Sharjah, (i)

Shehadeh, Raja, (i), (ii)

Palestinian Walks, (i)

Siberia, (i)

Lake Baikal, (i), (ii)

Sirens, (i)

Slocum, Joshua, (i), (ii), (iii)

Sailing Alone Around the World, (i)

Socrates, (i)

Solomon, King, (i)

Speke, John Hanning, (i)

Spray voyage, (i)

Stalin, Josef, (i)

Stanley, Henry Morton, (i)

Stark, Freya, (i), (ii), (iii)

Ionia, (i)

The Minaret of Djam, (i)

Stein, Gertrude, (i), (ii)

Steinbeck, John, (i), (ii), (iii)

Travels with Charley, (i)

Stevenson, Robert Louis, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, (i)

Stewart, Rory, (i), (ii), (iii)

The Places in Between, (i)

Strayed, Cheryl, (i), (ii)

Wild, (i)

Swain, Jon, (i), (ii)

River of Time, (i)

Tartary, (i)

Taylor, Andrew, (i)

Tenzing Norgay, (i), (ii)

Tesson, Sylvain, (i), (ii)

The Consolations of the Forest, (i)

Theroux, Paul, (i), (ii), (iii)

Dark Star Safari, (i)

The Great Railway Bazaar, (i)

Thesiger, Wilfred, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii), (viii)

Arabian Sands, (i)

The Marsh Arabs, (i)

Thomson, Joseph, (i), (ii), (iii)

Through Masai Land, (i)

Thubron, Colin, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

Behind the Wall, (i)

To a Mountain in Tibet, (i)

Tibet, (i), (ii)

Kum Bum lamasery, (i)

lake of Manasarovar, (i)

Lhasa, (i)

Shepeling monastery, (i)

Shey Gompa, (i)

Tierra del Fuego, (i)

Tinbergen, Niko, (i)

Trefusis, Violet, (i)

Trollope, Frances, (i)

Turkey, (i), (ii)

Erzurum, (i), (ii)

Priene, (i)

Twain, Mark, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

The Innocents Abroad, (i)

Life on the Mississippi, (i)

United States of America, (i), (ii), (iii)

Kentucky Bend, (i)

Mojave Desert, (i)

Rocky Mountains, (i)

Seiad Valley, (i)

Turtle Mountain, (i)

see also Chicago; Mississippi river

Ur, ziggurat of, (i)

Vatican City, (i)

Vaughan Williams, Ralph, (i)

Venice, (i), (ii)

Wallace, Alfred Russel, (i), (ii)

Waugh, Evelyn, (i)

Wellington, Duke of, (i)

Wheeler, Sara, (i)

Wilson, Angus, (i)

Winser, Nigel and Shane, (i)

Woolf, Virginia, (i)

Woolley, Sir Leonard, (i)

Xerxes, King of Persia, (i)

Yogistan, (i)

Younghusband, Francis, (i), (ii), (iii)

The Heart of a Continent, (i)

Zenobia, arch of, (i)