Book Review: “Shah of Shahs”
Ryszard Kapuscinski (Vintage Books – 152 pages) Reviewer – Luke Brown The reporter studies a photo of a group of men standing on a street in Teheran, waiting for a bus to arrive. Nothing really unusual...
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Book Review: “Karma Cola” by Gita Mehta
(Penguin – 193 pages) Reviewer – Luke Brown Sometimes a book is published that is virtually unreviewable. Not because it is a mess, but rather because one can not do it justice. Published in 1979 and...
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Book Review: “See No Evil” by Robert Baer
(Crown Publishers – 284 pages) Reviewer – Luke Brown The momentous failure of intelligence agencies, in particular the CIA, to prevent the horrors of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the...
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Book Review: “The Great Game” by Peter Hopkirk
(Oxford University Press – 562 pages) Reviewer – Luke Brown Posted: 15 September, 2003 Although the phrase “The Great Game” was immortalised in Rudyard Kipling’s turn of the century adventure novel,...
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Book Review: “Setting the East Ablaze” by Peter Hopkirk
(Oxford University Press – 252 pages) Reviewer – Luke Brown Having seized power of Russia in the 1917 Revolution and being subsequently disappointed that it didn’t have a snowballing effect on Europe,...
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War Junkie by Jon Steele
Few people know the main players in Red October, the Russian parliamentary siege of 1993 and even fewer people know why in 1994 the Hutu Tribe went on a killing rampage of Tutsi civilians. The fact is...
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Review – The Bradt Travelguide To Uganda
Guidebooks for the world’s dark places? – Lee Ridley reviews the Bradt Travelguide to Uganda. Bradt Travelguides target the extreme adventure-travellers’ market and in doing so set themselves a hefty...
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Book Review – Bradt Rwanda Travelguide
Bradt Rwanda Travelguide – Janice Booth and Philip Briggs. The first time I picked up a Bradt Travelguide, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Another Rough Guide? Another Let’s Go? Footprint or Lonely...
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Book Review: Bradt Congo by Sean Rorison
PBs’ very own crackpot, the inimitable Dean Farisian, reviews the latest offering from the Bradt Guides collection – The Bradt Travelguide to The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) I come from...
View ArticleBook Review: Blood River – A Journey To Africa’s Broken Heart
It’s a widely accepted fact that there are few places left on the planet that have yet to be penetrated by the great white explorer. Some hidden corners of New Guinea and Ecuador may still throw up...
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Review – The Bradt Travel Guide To Sudan
The publication of the Bradt Travel Guide to Sudan (author Paul Clammer) comes at both a welcome and opportune moment. Indeed, how many years is it since we have seen any sort of travel guide for...
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Learning Arabic – Al Humdulillah!!!
Introduction Arabic is one of the more difficult languages for a native English speaker to learn. The US military considers it a class IV language, along with Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, and...
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