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A wonderful personal journey through the tropics from the Observer's former chief travel correspondent.
Part memoir, part travelogue, Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics is rooted in Alex Frater's birthplace, the tiny tropical republic of Vanuatu. From this obscure South Seas group, he ranges over the hot, wet, beautiful swathe of the world that has haunted him ever since. Along the way, Frater dines with a tropical queen in a leper colony, crosses tropical Africa (and two civil wars) in a forty-four-year-old flying boat, and visits scores of countries, learning about their remarkable history, politics, medicine, flora and fauna. Alexander Frater has contributed to various UK publications and The New Yorker; as chief travel correspondent of The London Observer he won an unprecedented number of British Press Travel Awards. He lives in London, though, whenever time and money allow, is likely to be found skulking deep in the hot, wet tropics.
Part memoir, part travelogue, Tales From the Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropics is rooted in Alex Frater's birthplace, the tiny tropical republic of Vanuatu. From this obscure South Seas group, he ranges over the hot, wet, beautiful swathe of the world that has haunted him ever since. Along the way, Frater dines with a tropical queen in a leper colony, crosses tropical Africa (and two civil wars) in a forty-four-year-old flying boat, and visits scores of countries, learning about their remarkable history, politics, medicine, flora and fauna. Alexander Frater has contributed to various UK publications and The New Yorker; as chief travel correspondent of The London Observer he won an unprecedented number of British Press Travel Awards. He lives in London, though, whenever time and money allow, is likely to be found skulking deep in the hot, wet tropics.