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A Longing for Lhasa | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | Tibet, Lhasa, Lhasa
Many tried to reach Lhasa but none succeeded until, in 1811, an eccentric English scholar called Thomas Manning, ignoring the fact that he had been refused permission, rode up to the Potala wearing a heavy but ineffective disguise. Surprisingly, he was allowed to stay for five months and to have an audience with the seven year old Dalai Lama before he was thrown out...
Cuba Libre | Robin Hanbury-Tenison
The Hilton was occupied by young fighters of both sexes in green fatigues, draped with weapons, who all had long hair and charming manners
Eden is a Must | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall
The Eden Project in Cornwall is the best thing to have happened in a dreadful year of Domes and disease. In a remarkably short space of time, a giant china clay quarry has been transformed into a spectacular space age garden. With exactly half the funding coming from the Millennium Commission, it has cost less than 10% of the Dome and is at least a hundred times more interesting. It also has a serious message for all those concerned about the future of our countryside.
Himalayan Endings | Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Everyone knows about the social and environmental problems faced in Kashmir, Nepal and even Bhutan, but few have heard of the last Himalayan state, Arunachal Pradesh
Just Desserts | Robin Hanbury-Tenison
It is the vast bowl of sky overhead, burnished by day, stippled by night; it is the space, emphasised by the wind, punctuated by the silence
Kidnapped! | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | Afghanistan, Kabul, Kabul
The British Embassy, which in those days welcomed the occasional traveller with generous hospitality, strongly advised us against going...
Paradise Found | Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Sulawesi is an orchid shaped island next to Borneo...
Plants for the Future | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | United Kingdom, Devon and Cornwall, Cornwall
Robin Hanbury-Tenison, who was the last Director of the BFSS and the first Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, shows how the Eden Project in Cornwall demonstrates the way ahead for the countryside, both locally and globally. He also urges everyone to visit, preferably staying in one of his and his wife, Louella’s, luxurious houses nearby!
Riches of the Tundra | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | Russian Federation, Kamtchatka, Kamchatka Peninsula
Geographically, the place we British should be most interested in is Kamchatka. The peninsula is about the same size as the British Isles and lies between the same latitudes. Moreover, it is almost exactly on the opposite side of the globe to us being only a few degrees off longitude 180, the continuation of the Greenwich Meridian. What makes it very different is that it lacks the benefit of the Gulf Stream, so the temperature drops to Minus 60 in the winter and the permafrost never melts more than a foot or so below the surface...
The Friendly Isles: in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh Fermor | Robin Hanbury-Tenison
As Paddy says: "Each island is a distinct and idiosyncratic entity, a civilisation, or the reverse, fortuitous in its origins and empirical in its development." And then again, quoting an old Jamaican: "We're always going somewhere. But we never get there."
The Lost City | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | Peru, Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu, Machu Picchu
One of the luckiest breaks in the history of exploration must have been when Hiram Bingham stumbled on Machu Picchu, which was to become the most famous ruin in South America, a few days after leaving Cusco on his first attempt to find the lost Inca capital of Vilcabamba...
The Penan: Nomads of Borneo | Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Today, most Penan have been persuaded by the Sarawak Government to settle and much of their rich environment has been destroyed by the logging companies which have now clear-felled most of the interior of the island of Borneo
Tigers of the Taiga | Robin Hanbury-Tenison | Russian Federation, Siberia-Central, Lake Baikal
The Udege economy depends on trapping throughout the long winter and fishing in the river during the summer. The River Bikin is the most important remaining refuge of the Siberian tiger, 40 of which, out of a wild population that is probably now below 200, live and breed successfully there