1 What really urges you to travel and explore? Is it a hunger for adventure? Or a reality check on life? WHAT DRIVES ME IS AN EAGERNESS TO LEARN AND UNDERSTAND, NOT THE BIG PICTURE BUT THE ORDINARY STUFF. I WANT TO SIT IN A CAFÉ AND WATCH THE WORLD GO BYE.

HOW DID YOU START TRAVELLING? Then, in my late teens, encouraged by my parents, I started to travel alone. First, I went to America and learned to fly. Then I journeyed to central Africa, and in a single moment I realised how the next twenty years would be spent moving.

In a world shrunk by speedier travel, cultures impinge more readily upon alien cultures. Such impacts bring about change. The examples in this book show some societies declining as a result, some thriving, and something of the efforts to encompass the resulting complex situations within an international legal framework.

Forty-five million years ago, the supercontinent of Gondwanaland split apart. This created what are now known as India, Africa and South America. The huge land-mass was named after the Gonds, a primitive tribe of central India. Meeting a Gond story-teller, Tahir Shah heard their ancient saga. He vowed to make an epic journey across Gondwanaland. A fascinating journey from a very original point of view. Robert Twigger, Literary Review.

Search For The Lost City of Gold. Search For The Lost City of Gold. The journeys and his TV-hour film formed the basis for the cinematic feature film House of the HOUSE OF THE TIGER KING.