Book Of The Month March, 2010
The Mango Orchard: Travelling back…Robin Bayley
As a child, Robin Bayley was enchanted by his grandmother s stories of Mexican adventures: of bandits, wild jungle journeys, hidden bags of silver and a narrow escape from the bloody Mexican Revolution. But Robin sensed there was more to these stories than anyone knew, and so he set out to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather. The Mango Orchard is the story of parallel journeys’ a hundred years apart, into the…
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Kirstan Hawkins
Kirstan Hawkins studied anthropology at Edinburgh University and has travelled extensively in her work in Africa, Latin America and Asia. She carried out fieldwork for her degree among the Ashaninka Indians of the Peruvian Amazon, and for Ph.D. she spent time in the…
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