It seemed an indelicate way to arrive at a religious ceremony....
1. Take lots of US dollars in cash, in fact everything...
Two articles I wrote shortly after the 9/11 attacks on the...
“Do you dare to wear it?” – 1974 advert for Bint el Sudan...
Reflections as South Sudan votes 99 per cent for...
My article over the battle for the Arctic is now on the...
By Alison Bate (See also: Surprise in the Souk) In the...
Uyghur men in Kashgar souk When I visited Kashgar just over...
The Toronto Star recently listed China’s Urumqi as one of...
My story about teaching in Khartoum, Sudan in 2007 is now on...
The Ship That Will Not Die has finally been laid to rest, after...
How we were turfed out of a village in remote China after a...
* Sample selection of my shipping stories
* Kyle Washington: The Prince of Tides
* The Oil Detectives
* Escape from the 91st Floor
* Armada Rescues Trapped New Yorkers
* The Ship That Will Not Die
* Crossing the Columbia Bar
* Sailing To Shanghai: How I crossed the Pacific on a containership
* What the Truckers' Fight Is All About
* Summaries on National Transportation Library website
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