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Venezuela: Climbing Ilu Tepuy
Stephen PlattCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50We went to Venezuela in 1981 after an expedition we had been invited to join fell through. So we turned our attention to Ilu Tepuy, an unclimbed sa...
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Turkey: East meets West
Stephen PlattCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50The city of Van on the Silk Road in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. It was hit by an earthquake on Sunday 23 October 2011. People were killed and many mo...
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Iceland: Laugavegur Trail
Stephen PlattCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99The Laugavegur is one of the big walks. It is the most famous trek in Iceland and crosses other worldly landscapes formed by recent volcanos. I did...
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Australia: Distant Encounters
Stephen PlattCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Australia is far-flung and until the airplane overcame the tyranny of distance Australia was terra incognita. Aboriginals of Australia are one of ...
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Japan: After the Tsunami
Stephen PlattCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99Twelve of us went from the UK, as part of an Earthquake Engineering Field Investigation (EEFIT) mission, to study recovery after the 2011 Tohoku ts...
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Iran: Tales of Persia
Stephen PlattCurrent price €13.20Original price €16.50I visited Iran twice: in 2014 and 2015. On the first visit I went to Manjil and Bam, two cities devastated by earthquakes in 1990 and 2003. I wante...
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Autana: Eye of the Gods
Stephen PlattCurrent price €7.64Original price €8.99El Autana is a sandstone tepuy or butte about 400 miles south of Caracas in the Amazon Territory of Venezuela. We climbed the left hand ridge in th...
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Morocco: Sahara and Atlas
Stephen PlattCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50We had a trip to Morocco in mind for some years, since Frances, our daughter, went there on buying trips twenty years ago. But this time we visited...
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India: Himalayan Sanctuaries
Stephen PlattCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50India has an overwhelming impact: the colours, sounds and smells of Delhi, where we bought a silk carpet. The majestic Himalayas and our climbs thr...
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Kyrgyzstan: Bishkek and Tien Shan
Stephen PlattCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99I went to Kyrgyzstan to run a scenario planning game in Bishkek with Emergency personnel from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan use remote sensing to map h...
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Russia: St Petersburg
Stephen PlattCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99We went to St Petersburg in 2009 for a meeting on an EU project called ISAAC about heritage tourism. The May weather was marvellous and we stayed i...
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Pakistan: Kaghan Valley
Stephen PlattCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99This is an account of a trip with Emily So of Cambridge University in 2006 to the areas affected by the Pakistan earthquake of 8 October 2005. The ...
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Thailand: Andaman Sea
Stephen PlattCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99An account of a trip to Thailand to test using satellite imagery to monitor long-term disaster recovery. We had two or three days in the hot and st...
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Italy: Valleys of Rock
Scharlie PlattCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99In the summer of 2004 we went climbing with Dimitri in the Valle Garrafano in the Apuane Alps, a limestone area famous for its Carrara marble. Dimi...
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Colombia: Barrios and Beaches
Stephen PlattCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50I first met Maria Ximena when she talked about Cazuca, a barrio to the south west of Bogota and I visited Colombia three times. Working with young ...
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