Far horizons
Subtitle: unusual journeys and strange encounters from a travelling life
By: Frank Gardner ; with a foreword by Michael Palin
Contributors: Palin, Michael
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Bath, England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781408459348; 9781408459355
Subjects: Travel; Investigative reporting; Foreign correspondents; Adventure and adventurers; Journalisme d'enquête
Description: Lost on a remote Sumatran volcano ... pursued through a Tokyo backstreet by a Japanese gangster ... picnicking with the French Foreign Legion in the Horn of Africa: Frank Gardener's idea of a holiday is not for everyone. Drawing on the diaries, sketches and photos he kept during his travels, he recounts his journey's around the world.