25th October 2006, 12:30 PM
If you're having a Newby fest, don't miss out 'Round Ireland in Low Gear' - cracking read and he visits loads of archaeological sites too. The pansies comment was from Wilfred Thesiger - proper old school Victorian relic of an explorer - standards have slipped a bit since his day... But the best Afghan travelogue has to be Robert Byron's 'The Road to Oxiana' - Classic. For modern - Rory Stewarts' 'The Places in Between' - a solo walk across the mountains to Kabul in January 2002 in the immediate aftermath of the 'War'. Sorry, bit of an armchair traveller...[8D]