The Old Patagonian Express

The Old Patagonian Express

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. What’s become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip? But a travel book is the opposite, the loner bouncing back bigger than life to tell the story of his experiment with space....
Dark Star Safari

Dark Star Safari

I got a glimpse of two men in dusty robes, their faces hidden by bands of cloth, standing in the road, with rifles held upright, firing into the air. Two things happened then. First, and startlingly, the man crouched beside me – a soldier – lifted his...