Lionel Grigson

A Spanish writer and philosopher wrote that To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand'. I think that travellers, be they international jet-setters or those who prefer their armchairs, should always pack in their knapsacks those two essential items - 'wonder' and 'surprise'. They are...

THE BRIEFING Bv y sheer speed and surprise, the daring mission to rescue the professor had succeeded. Soon afterwards, in an operating theater at the country's leading research hospital, a team of four doctors was being briefed in an even more daring and extraordinary mission. "Ladies and...

VWVVWV\WVWVWWWWWWWW 2 VlMAAAAW^^^AWWWW^/WWVWWInto the CloudsHlello. My name is Jim Rushing, and I am an American aviator. This is the story of how I didn't succeed in making the first solo flight over the Amazon Basin - but did succeed, instead, in trekking single-handedly through the Amazon jungle...

THE msm ifiere was trouble inside and outside Egypt. The priests of the old gods plotted against the pharaoh Akhenaten. From the northeast the warlike Hittite people threatened to invade. So Akhenaten and his advisers thought up a desperate plan. Now the story is taken up by Setna, a young...