"Peter Mayle's books are all fabulous summer reads, but this one stands out. The story from lovely Provence is written by his dog... So funny you can't stop laughing!"
"The amazing true story of one of Britain's greatest explorers, interwoven with the tale of the N.Y. journalist who tries to find out what happened to him deep inside the Amazonian jungle."
"She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic, but was mostly famous for taking Bror Blixen and his safari parties to unexplored hunting grounds in Africa where she was born and raised among Masai."
"The author himself is quite a globetrotter, but here he recalls the stories of many an eccentric European who tried to live among nomads ahead of him."
"An original story made up entirely by letters from an author in London whose fate crosses with a group of islanders at Guernsey just after WW2. Beautiful and touching."
"A great writer who knows how to make you turn the pages as she explores Italy, India and Indonesia to get her life back together after a divorce. A spiritual journey, but with her feet firmly planted."
"The true story of a Canadian composer who finds himself on the Island of Bali, where he discovers a rare and mystic musical tradition, the Gamelan. (And I lived on the same spot as his house years"
"Wilfred Thesiger is one of a kind. An extraordinary man very much like a modern Lawrence of Arabia. This is his most famous book, from five years in the Arabian desert."
"A British woman happen to become very close to a Bedouin family, the sheikhs of Abu Dhabi. Touching and respectful of a very special way of life in the desert."
"Astonishing true story of an extraordinary man who escaped Australian prison to end up in Bombay, India where fate took him on a roller coaster ride. Amazing page turner."
