Gordon Peake’s work as an international development consultant has led him to the world’s forgotten corners, places once besieged by anthropologists and now overrun by Western aid workers. He's written books on Timor-Leste and Bougainville, and the inside stories he shares about the big money world of development projects will surprise you and make you laugh.
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Sarah Anderson: Founding The Travel Bookshop
Louisa Waugh: Life on the edge of Mongolia
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Laura Trethewey: Mapping our unknown oceans
Tim Cocks: Life in Africa’s biggest megacity
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The Pyrenees: Matthew Carr on Europe’s savage frontier
Simon Winchester: Outposts at the edge of the world
Tom Parfitt: Walking the High Caucasus
Richard Grant: Travels With American Nomads
Anthony Sattin: How nomads shaped settled civilization
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Eastern Europe with Jacob Mikanowski
Berlin with Barney White-Spunner
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