Outposts
Subtitle: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: June 15, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780060598617
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.