Why do we travel?For the most part, we travel to arrive, but with the travels of the Sheena-Rosa, there is a fusion between travelling and arriving. Whether a few miles off-shore or harboured in a sheltered port, the experience is a continuum.From the sea, one observes the land, its contours and its mountains – a view that has little changed from the landscape our ancestors would have seen. Then as we draw nearer, the features on this landscape appear, and the influence of man becomes more and more apparent.We arrive on port and step onto the old stones, for the port is always the most ancient part of any coastal town. Our papers are checked and we are now part of this community.The curious walk along the quay. Sometimes they chat. And we are also curious to discover the hidden gems which exist throughout this timeless Italy.It is a mode of travel like none other.
This book explains, in non-technical terms, the relationship between man
and the many bacteria, viruses and other micro-organisms with whom he
lives in the most intimate manner throughout his existence.
It is explained that for the most part, this coexistence is beneficial,
but that through evolution and natural selection, some bacteria, viruses
and other micro-organisms may become aggressive to the host in which
they live and that others may become aggressive as a result of mutation
through other species.
This aggressiveness manifests itself through the diseases which afflict man and all that is living.
The cause and nature of those diseases which have been most devastating
for human society and which have greatly influenced the course of
history are portrayed in this book, as are the means by which the spread
of infections may be controlled before they progress to become
epidemics and pandemics.
During the era of the great civilizations of antiquity, the polytheistic
religions considered it their sacred duty to maintain justice, order
and equilibrium for all that was living: man, the animals and the
plants, without which life was not possible.
By contrast, with the coming of the monotheistic religions it is the
worship and adoration of the unique deity and the faith in the dogmas
purported to him that have an importance above all other considerations.
As each monotheism believes that it is only their deity who is unique
and that it is only he who is the source of all truth, the risk of
conflict between those who hold a contrary view is ever present.
The multiplicity of gods and the absence of dogmas had assured that
religion was not a reason for conflict at the time of the polytheistic
civilizations of antiquity.
This is the account of a summer journey of over four thousand kilometres
by motorbike from Nice, on the Mediterranean coast of France, to the
North Cape of Norway, Europe's most northern extremity, a headland
surrounded by the Arctic Ocean.
Equipped with a small tent, the author camped until he had crossed the
Arctic Circle, using thereafter the wooden cabins that are to be found
in the north of Scandinavia.
The author has tried to convey the pleasures of this form of exploration
and has given his thoughts to those who may wish to follow, whether on a
motorbike or other form of transport, or from the comfort of their own
home.
This book relates the experiences of a doctor, who, after nearly half a
century of medical practice in Europe became a volunteer doctor, working
with Médecins Sans Frontières, (Doctors without Borders), treating
young children with severe malaria in rural Chad, one of the most
isolated and poorest parts of the African continent.
The author describes the route he followed from his first inclination to
work in this field to the time of his arrival in Africa. An Africa
whose evolution is described from pre-colonial days to the present time.
Whilst giving details of the many facets of malaria, the author portrays
the country and the people of Chad with whom he lived and worked, a
people for whom his respect increased with each passing day.
John Brooke began his medical studies in Edinburgh in the early 1960s, when many of his professors had personal experience of the epidemics of the first half of the century. Entertainingly, he recount ........
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