Chasing the Mountain of Light

History

Kevin Rushby

Asia

Flamingo

A journey along the centuries-old trade route from the Ethiopian highlands to the ancient cities of Yemen.

Eating the Flowers of Paradise: Through the Drug Fields from Ethiopia to Yemen

Travel

Africa

Constable Robinson

The Koh-i-Noor is the greatest diamond of India and one of the most famous stones in the world. Supposedly cursed, the stone can now be seen in the Tower of London. Here, Kevin Rushby tells of his journey to discover the history behind the stone.

Constable

Kevin Rushby's objective is to locate the descendants of the 16th century pirates who had carved kingdoms for themselves in the remote jungles of north-east Madagascar. Hitching rides on a motley assortment of freighters, dhows, yachts and fishing smacks, he sails up the African coast, then east towards his goal. It is a story full of incident: voyages to islands where forgotten Portugese forts lie covered in jungle, places where some have tried to shoot their way to paradise, and where the ever-present ocean can destroy lives and dreams as quickly as men and women create them.

Hunting pirate heaven: In search of the lost pirate utopias of the Indian Ocean

Constable Company Ltd

Eating the Flowers of Paradise: A Journey Through the Drug Fields of Ethiopia & Yemen

Diane Pub.

This acclaimed book is travel writing at its entertaining and hair-raising best. Kevin Rushby set out to find the lost pirate settlements that once existed on the islands and atolls of the Indian Ocean. Hitching rides on a motley assortment of vessels, he sails up the African coast, then east, to locate the descendants of the legendary sixteenth-century pirates who carved out kingdoms in the jungles of Madagascar. Along the way, Rushby meets up with the crackpot dreamers, tough settlers, the fighters and the failures who live on the islands now. This is a romantic story in the old-fashioned sense, full of adventure and colour.

Hunting Pirate Heaven

Constable & Robinson Ltd.

<p>They murdered more than a million travellers without spilling a drop of blood. They were inspired by religious fanaticism, yet came from many faiths. Their weapon was the handkerchief, their sacrament sugar, and their goddess Kali. They were the thugs. He is responsible for more than a hundred murders. He lives in the deepest jungles left in India and avoids capture, his followers claim, by magical powers. Some say he is a freedom fighter, others that he is a vicious hoodlum. He is Veerappan, India's most wanted man, and the most famous member of the modern thug cult. This book investigates this dark side of India. The author's quest takes him to prisons and gangster hideouts, probing the nature of crime and punishment in a country where the distinction between good and evil can be as murky as the Ganges. Part travelogue, part history and part personal record, this book is a revelation too - the Devil of the title is not Kali, nor is it any of the thugs or other villains, but the demons that exist within a traveller's own mind.</p>

Children of Kali

Robinson Publishing

Chasing the Mountain of Light : Across India on the Trail of the Koh-I-Noor Diamond

Paradise

Robinson

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