Outposts
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Sceptre
Published: January 1, 1987
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780340402719
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Travel writing
First sentence: Like most long journeys into the unknown, this one began with an idea - an idea that was triggered by a strange story I read one wet Sunday afternoon in a recent early spring, on the front page of a London newspaper.