It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east, by myself and by camel. No one had ever made such a journey before ...' In October 1972 Geoffrey Moorhouse began his odyssey across the Sahara from the Atlantic to the Nile, a distance of 3,600 miles. His reason for undertaking such an immense feat was to examine the roots of his fear, to explore an extremity of human experience. From the outset misfortune was never far away; and as he moved further into that 'awful emptiness' the physical and mental deprivation grew more intense. In March 1973, having walked the last 300 miles, Moorhouse, ill and exhausted, reached Tamanrasset, where he decided to end his journey. The Fearful Void is the moving record of his struggle with fear and loneliness and, ultimately, his coming to terms with the spiritual as well as the physical dangers of the desert.

The Fearful Void (Travel Library)

Geoffrey Moorhouse

Travel

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Against All Reason: Religious Life in the Modern World (Pelican)

Religion & Spirituality

To the frontier

A highly readable account of a three-month odyssey along the North-West Frontier, defined by the border of Pakistan with Afghanistan, British writer Geoffrey Moorhouse travels by train, bus, truck,jeep and foot.

To the Frontier

Asia

Harcourt

436p first edition hardback with illustrated brown dustjacket, one smallish closed tear to top of jacket and a little edgewear, name in ink, otherwise very good

Against all reason

Weidenfeld & N.

In the tradition of Simon Schama- an award winning travel writer reconstructs life on a an atlantic rock just off the Irish coast that for 600 years housed a medieval monastery.

Sun dancing: A medieval vision

Europe

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, through the never-before-told story of how one priory was saved and become Durham's mighty cathedral

The Last Office

Classic history of the Victorian seat of the British Raj, setting for the notorious Black Hole where 2 score English settlers diedin an 18th century uprising, and today the 4th largest city in the world. Kipling called it the city of dreadful night - a city of unspeakable poverty, of famine, riot and disease. Yet Calcutta, once the seat of the Raj, is the 2nd city in the commonwealth, the 4th city in the world. Geoffrey Moorhouse's history come travel book, 1st published by Wiedenfeld & Nicolson in 1971, remains the classic account.

Calcutta

History

Phoenix Paperbacks

Sydney: Portrait of a City

Australia & Oceania

Phoenix, Orion Books

What happened to the monks, their orders and the communities they served after Henry VIII's break with Rome in 1536? In THE LAST OFFICE Geoffrey Moorhouse reveals how the Dissolution of the Monasteries affected the great Benedictine priory at Durham, drawing for his sources on material that has lain forgotten in the recesses of one of our great cathedrals. The quarrel between Henry VIII and the papacy not only gave birth to the Church of England but heralded the destruction of the 650 or so religious houses that played a central role in the spiritual and economic life of the nation. Durham proved to be the exception. On New Year's Eve 1539, the monks sang the last compline. Next morning the priory and its community were surrendered into the hands of the King's commissioners. But then nothing happened. An interregnum lasted 16 months before the priory was reborn as the new cathedral church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin, part of the new Church of England. The Prior became the Dean and 12 monks were retained as prebendaries. In Geofrey Moorhouse's original and absorbing study, one of the great catalytic events of our past comes alive through the personalities and events at one key monastery.

Phoenix

San Francisco (Great Cities) [Hardcover] Geoffrey Moorhouse (Author), Time-Life Books (Author)

The Great Cities: San Francisco

Time-Life-Books

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The Fearful Void (Travel Library)

Against All Reason: Religious Life in the Modern World (Pelican)

To the Frontier

Against all reason

Sun dancing: A medieval vision

The Last Office

Calcutta

Sydney: Portrait of a City

The Last Office

The Great Cities: San Francisco