Leonard Woolf's Stories of the East is back in print!
This superb
collection of short stories dating back to the author's time as a colonial
administrator in Ceylon has been almost completely forgotten. This
slender volume represents the first time that "Stories of the East" has been
available to the general reader. Originally published in 1921 by the Hogarth
Press in an edition limited to 300 copies, these stories have hardly seen
the light of day since.
This edition has an excellent Introduction by Sir Christopher
Ondaatje, author of
Woolf in Ceylon.
Leonard Woolf's
famous classic, The Village in the Jungle, joins
the Classic Travel Books collection. In a literary
career spanning more than 60 years the highly prolific man of letters
Leonard Woolf published hardly any fiction. Of the little he did produce, by
far the most important was The Village in the Jungle (1913), a debut
novel set in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) of such literary accomplishment that it
should have propelled him on a career to match his great contemporaries D H
Lawrence or Thomas Hardy. Instead Woolf chose to devote himself to
publishing fiction by his more famous wife, Virginia, while running the
famous Hogarth Press. This edition has an interesting Introduction by
Nick Smith, travel writer and former editor of The Royal Geographical
Society's magazine. Please click here for more
information.
Coming soon!
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern
and Central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823 and 1824.
Major Dixon Denham and Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton were the
first Europeans to travel across the Sahara, return safely and write about
it. Copies of this classic are hard to find and very expensive,
so we are pleased and proud to place it back into print. This edition
has a fascinating
Introduction by Jamie Bruce-Lockhart, author of Hugh Clapperton:
into the Interior of Africa,
Difficult
and Dangerous Roads and Clapperton in Borno: journals of the travels in
Borno of Lieutenant Hugh Clapperton, RN, from January 1823 to September 1824. (Please
click here to read a wonderful story about
Hugh Clapperton by Jamie Bruce-Lockhart on The Long Riders' Guild website.)
Aurora
Australisby Ernest Shackleton. This is the book
which was written, illustrated and printed by the members of Shackleton's
British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1908. It has a Foreword by Sir
Edmund Hillary and an Introduction by Alexandra Shackleton, the
granddaughter of the famous explorer. The royalties from this book are
being donated to the Antarctic Heritage Trust to help them in their efforts
to preserve the huts of Shackleton, Robert Scott and Carsten Borchgrevink.
Please click here
for more information.
The South Pole Ponies by
Theodore Mason. This is a superb book about the forgotten
heroes of Antarctic Exploration - Manchurian and Siberian ponies who
struggled alongside such famous explorers at Ernest Shackleton and Robert
Scott. For more information, please
click here.
Excellent article about CTB author Robin
Hanbury-Tenison is published in The Telegraph
magazine.
