An extract from a letter that Lord Gordon Byron sent to his mother while traveling around the Balkans, in the times of the Ottoman Empire, relating...

A short travel story by Geoffrey Gorer (1905-1985), an English anthropologist and writer. He visited West Africa in 1934, in order to study...

Then we had had rain water; but here there was not a single source that could be turned to account. With unutterable regret our eyes rested on the...

It's 20 years since demolition of Kowloon Walled City began, but former residents hold fond memories of the overcrowded slum they called home.It was...

Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron (born 1939) is a British novelist and travel writer. In 1983 he published a book called "Among the Russians", as an...

A sermon that Francis Owen, a British missionary stationed in Natal, delivered to the Zulu king Dingaan and his people in the early 19th century....

As we're soon leaving for Istanbul, here's a couple of old postcards, photos and maps showing various scenes and moments from the life of the city....

Sumatra Now we are carefree, tender and airy.
Let us think: how quiet are, the snowy
peaks of the Urals. If we get sad over a pale...

In science fiction filmdom, the destruction of the Statue of Liberty is merely a sign that the carnage is chugging along at a steady tack. But...

A member of our club has dug out a huge book titled "Wonders of the World" from 1912, and was kind enough to scan all the photos. For all we know,...