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A fictionalised account of Sgt. Hurcom's war in Mesopotamia in 1917 as medical orderly and conscientious objector....  Read More >>

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Crossing the high Himalayan passes in the middle of winter on horseback is not for the faint-hearted. The Victorian...  Read More >>

During 1949 and 1950 H.W. Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal's Himalaya. He explored the Ganesh Himal,...  Read More >>

H.W. Tilman's book Ice with Everything describes three voyages that attempt to reach East Greenland's Scoresby Sound,...  Read More >>

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The true story of a public execution in Saudi Arabia interspaced with a businessman's observations on the culture...  Read More >>

In Mischief’s Wake gives H.W. Tilman’s account of the loss of Mischief, the pilot cutter in which he had sailed...  Read More >>

The first full-scale literary trial in Britain's history - re-counted by the ever-charming and inimitable Sybille...  Read More >>

The island of Havera, one of a host of small sparsely populated islands dotted around the Shetland coast, was unique...  Read More >>

A Book Riot Best Book of the Year Goodreads Choice Award Finalist (History/Biography) “It’s Downton Abbey meets...  Read More >>

The town of Port Talbot has long been seen (quite literally) as synonymous with the steel industry. Yet it also...  Read More >>

Assassination? Conspiracy? Evidence of the shocking truth is finally revealed. 'Shocking new details' HERALD SUN...  Read More >>

By soldier and successful businessman, innovative travel writing. Authoritative, genuine voice of an expert in...  Read More >>

Biography of Victorian male prostitute  Read More >>

A world spiralling towards war. A composer descending into madness. And a devoted woman struggling to keep her faith...  Read More >>

H.W. Tilman’s Two Mountains and a River sees him trek across Nepal, China, Pakistan and other areas of Asia, including...  Read More >>

Mischief goes South is H.W. Tilman's account of a voyage dogged by crew trouble. The two unsuccessful voyages regaled...  Read More >>

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Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have...  Read More >>

Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War?  Read More >>

Gerstacker, the most illustrious and prolific of German travel writers, set foot in Australia in 1851, having walked...  Read More >>

Lutes are time-capsules - they are braced inside with odd scraps of cloth and printed paper. The author is building...  Read More >>

The journalist's real name is Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers soon becomes a phenomenal, unprecedented sensation,...  Read More >>