Buy this book on-line FOGLE**, BEN: : The Teatime Islands: Journeys to Britain's Faraway OutpostsLONDON.PENGUIN/MICHAEL JOSEPH,2003. ISBN 9780718145712.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,author's colour photographic portrait illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with red, blue+brown lettering to a cream background,montage'd scenic colour photographs to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Dw/dj spine/backstrip inevitably sunned and lightly faded.Top edges slightly aged/ toned but clean,fore-edges less aged,so brighter and clean also; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate colour pictorial map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xxivpp+6-264pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,author's introduction,6 chapters+epilogue,b/w maps,32pp contemporary scenic colour photographs in 2 blocks of 16pp apiece,between pp72/3 and pp168/9 respectively,a bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and contents list/ table.
Union Jacks and red postboxes can still be found in some of the most remote, inaccessible places on the planet - the far-flung islands still governed by Britain.
Ben Fogle,pursuing a childhood dream,has travelled to meet the inhabitants of these wild places with evocative names like Tristan da Cunha,Ascension,Diego Garcia and Pitcairn.
Because of his own unique experience on Castaway 2000 he's been welcomed by these isolated, patriotic communities,sharing tea and scones under fading portrait of the Queen.Along the way,though,he's been threatened by elephant seals,witness to a shark attack,played bingo with Princess Anne,been pursued by the Royal Navy,and deported for spying from Pitcairn,the remote Pacific home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers.
'The Teatime Islands' is a charming, personal and eventful voyage of discovery in the company of a very engaging travelling companion.This is the author's first book.
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