Inspiring Travel Writing About Adventure : Page 10 of 11

"Five fishermen are sitting around on makeshift benches beneath a palm shelter behind Miss Sophie's guesthouse. They wear dusty cut-off slacks and baseball caps. It is nearly noon, they are back from the morning on the sea, and their boats bob on the..."

"Sebastian Snow was the last truly eccentric British explorer. I always thought he should have come to a romantic end, like Tony Last in A Handful of Dust, and on a couple of occasions I suggested ways he might achieve this. Instead he died on April..."

"Réunion is a cluster of volcanic peaks and craters veined with long, corkscrewing roads that climb up to cool, almost Alpine, plateaux dotted with mountain villages where the tricolour is still fluttering with pride above the mairie. When you arrive..."

"The brochure promised "Blades gently breaking the water; nature all around.'' Too right it was all around. White water poured over the sides of the raft which now was slewing down the wave, broadside into a maelstrom"