Author: John Gimlette

By the end of World War II much of Western Europe was in chaos. The future of our world had been contested here, in the hinterlands of France and a...

Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees...

John Gimlette's travels through this harsh and awesome landscape, the eastern extreme of the Americas, broadly mirrors that of Dr Eliot Curwen, his...

Paraguay - the name conjures up everything most exotic and extreme in South America. It's a place of hellish jungles, dictators, fraudsters and Naz...

A gripping account of an under-reported island' Spectator, Book of the Year '[A] brilliant new book about an island that has a geography from he...