The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels

Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners

The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked

There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment

An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink

His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost

Popular geology writing is as old as the geological sciences themselves

In the heart of the Amazon basin the Korubo people live in almost total isolation

Around the world to watch the bullfights

The series has no equal