The autobiography of the eminent journalist, broadcaster and author, Trevor Fishlock. Renowned as a foreign correspondent from over 70 countries, he won the David Holden Award for foreign reporting and the prize for International Reporter of the Year in the British Press Awards.
Pembrokeshire' celebrates this most revered county through the words of travel writer Trevor Fishlock and images of landscape photographer Jeremy Moore.
Conquerors of Time celebrates 150 years of courage, energy, innovation, resourcefulness and grand ideas, from the late 17th century to the early 20th. It's about the seafarers, engineers, inventors and trailblazers who enabled the British to hold together a vast empire and the Americans to push their frontiers west. Some, such as Captain Cook and Robert Stephenson are famous. Others, like the makers of chromonometers, the collectors of tropical plants or the railway engineers who roughed it in the Canadian wilderness are less well-known. What they all had in common is a desire to understand the world and a determination to harness the forces of nature. 'Trevor Fishlock's brio and broad vision matches those of his subjects and makes for a rattling good read.' Lawrence James, Daily Mail 'Fact-filled and highly evocative ... the sheer romance of the story is irresistible.' Sunday Telegraph
After years of living and writing abroad, foreign correspondent Trevor Fishlock turns his eyes and ears to his native land in search of the spirit of Britain. His book shows a country leaning on its history, but it is also peppered with detail and curiosities about landscape and people.
Following the success of the first Wild Tracks book, Trevor Fishlock sets off again in search of Wales and its wonderful surprises. With his keen instinct for history, humour and human interest he presents a dozen new journeys based on the popular HTV series Fishlock's Wild Tracks. Exploring the incomparable landscape he finds stories around every corner and tells them with relish. 'Here is Wales,' he says, 'speaking eloquently and entertainingly for itself.
A moving human story of love and courage, the first full telling of an extraordinary family saga. Shy and fabulously wealthy, the Davies sisters of Llandinam pluckily went to war, poured their fortune into charity and famously created for their country a magical trove of paintings, a joy for ever. Gwendoline and Margaret Davies believed that beauty had a power to do good. The art collection they bequeathed to the Welsh nation embodies this belief, and it is thanks to their generosity that National Museum Wales now houses the work of names such as Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Renoir and Rodin. They were the granddaughters of the great industrialist and philanthropist David Davies of Llandinam, but for all their fortune and privilege, they lived lives honed by shyness and self-denial, and haunted by love. Yet they adventured and pioneered: a medal salutes their Red Cross service in the Great War inFrance, for instance. This is the first book dedicated solely to the lives of the Davies sisters, illustrated by photographs from the family archive, and by over 50 pictures showcasing the glories of their collection, their "gift of sunlight.
Published to accompany the third series of W ild Tracks, this book follows twelve of Fishlock''s walks in Wales. Each walk is illustrated by stills from the HTV progr amme and a hand-drawn map featuring the places mentioned in the text.
Trevor Fishlock set off from the harsh and haunted gables of the Khyber, zigzagged to the dazzle of India's southern tip at Cape Comorin and came at last to the little town whose intriguing name was the seed of his odyssey. Out of it all emerges the smell and feel of the subcontinent, a grand tapestry, history laced into the urgent present in this narrative.;What shines through is the marvel of an enduring diversity. In India a billion people wrestle with the question of what India means and what it means to be Indian. In fact the motif of India is the crowd. Its spirit is the vigour of the brash new rich and the insistent demands and potential of the poor and the virtually enslaved. Its essence is the vast network of beliefs, the skeins of pilgrimage. It is a society heavy with tradition, sharpened by impatience, driven by the heartbeat of modern hopes.
Chronicles events leading to end of Soviet Union through lives of ordinary people living in various cities of USSR. Includes chapter on Yakutsk with descriptions of its buildings and historical origins.
Conquerors of Time celebrates 150 years of courage, energy, innovation, resourcefulness and grand ideas, from the late 17th century to the early 20th. It's about the seafarers, engineers, inventors and trailblazers who enabled the British to hold together a vast empire and the Americans to push their frontiers west. Some, such as Captain Cook and Robert Stephenson are famous. Others, like the makers of chromonometers, the collectors of tropical plants or the railway engineers who roughed it in the Canadian wilderness are less well-known. What they all had in common is a desire to understand the world and a determination to harness the forces of nature. 'Trevor Fishlock's brio and broad vision matches those of his subjects and makes for a rattling good read.' Lawrence James, Daily Mail 'Fact-filled and highly evocative ... the sheer romance of the story is irresistible.' Sunday Telegraph
Describes how Indira Gandhi, intimately involved in Indian political life even from childhood, became prime minister and the first woman to lead her country.
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