1 Extremes along the Silk Road: Adventures off the World’s Oldest SuperhighwayThe Silk Road is a fabled route that has been shaped by some of the most extraordinary tracts of land on this planet. A vast region separating China from the Mediterranean, it rates not only as a millennia-old trade route but also as one … Read More
1 Surviving Extremes: Ice, Jungle, Sand and SwampHuman beings are good at surviving harsh environments, but how do they manage to endure in places where nature still reigns supreme, where the physical geography is so raw and unforgiving? In this book, Nick puts his mind and body to the test in an attempt to find … Read More
1 Going to Extremes: Mud, Sweat and Frozen TearsIn Going to Extremes, Nick travels to the world’s hottest, coldest, wettest, and driest inhabited places. He seeks to discover not only how people manage to live in these places at all, but also why they settled there in the first place and, most intriguing of all, … Read More
1 Kalashnikovs and Zombie CucumbersWhat makes people believe in vaccination against bullets, or in cannibalistic hitmen who cruise the night skies on bat-back? Nick Middleton travelled to Mozambique to find out. This book assesses the state of the nation at a critical juncture, reflecting two trips, before and after the peace accord of 1992, which … Read More
1 Travels as a Brussels ScoutIn a modern rendition of the Grand tour of Europe, Nick set out to seek the truth behind the myths the British like to propagate about their European neighbours….. The Belgians are boring, the French eat nothing but Frogs legs and garlic and the Germans are officious and efficient. He … Read More
1 Ice Tea and Elvis: A Saunter through the Southern StatesFrom Memphis, Tennessee to Montgomery, Alabama and on to the limits of the Mason-Dixon line, the southern states of the USA have been mythologised by generations of southerners and northerners alike. Travelling by car, bus, train and plane, this is an exploration of the eleven … Read More
1 The Last Disco in Outer MongoliaWhy is it that to so many people Outer Mongolia seems the most remote spot on Earth? When Nick decided on a visit to find out he got an immediate inkling: it took five years to get an entry visa. This was in the heady days of soviet-style socialism, … Read More