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24听September 2005
Wilderness
Sandi Toksvig travels to places of peace, to isolated lands away from the frantic world.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
This week's guests:听
Joanna Kavenna is a writer and has just published a new book 'The Ice Museum - in search of the lost land of Thule'.听 Seen once by an Ancient Greek explorer and never found again, mysterious Thule came to represent the vast and empty spaces of the north.
Fascinated for many years by Arctic places, Joanna decided to travel through the lands that have been called Thule, from Shetland to Iceland, Norway, Estonia, and Greenland .
John Hare is a desert adventurer and conservationist; he has travelled extensively in both the Gobi desert and the Sahara .听 During his travel he has become involved with the protection of the wild Bactrian Camel, the only wild camels in the Mongolian and Chinese quarters of the Gobi desert.
Alkarim Jivani is the television editor for the London arts and entertainment magazine Time Out and likes to escape to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne to concentrate on his writing.听 Alkarim has stayed in the great wilderness of the Australian Outback where at night fall he felt as if he was on the edge of the universe.
Additional information:
The Ice Museum : In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
Publisher: Viking
ISBN: 0670913952
John Hare, Founder of the听
The Lost Camels of Tartary
Jane Goodall (Foreword), John Hare
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 0349111464
Shadows Across the Sahara : With Camels from Tripoli to Lake Chad
John Hare
Publisher: Constable and Robinson
ISBN: 1841196266
Alkarim Jivani, Author and the television editor for the London arts and entertainment magazine The 大象传媒 cannot be held responsible for
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The daughter of a foreign correspondent, Sandi has been travelling all her life more info |
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John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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