With the help of a Maratha nobleman, Mark Shand bought an elephant named Tara and rode her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned Indian ways. And with Tara, his new companion, he fell in love. Travels on My Elephant is the story of their epic journey across India, from packed highways to dusty back roads where communitie...

Ogni vecchia dimora inglese nasconde tra le sue mura qualche disegno, un dipinto o magari un’incantevole, polverosa illustrazione d’epoca co-loniale in cui è possibile contemplare l’intrepido esploratore che si avventura nel fitto della giungla minacciosa, oppure una gigantesca tigre del Bengala nell’atto di avventarsi con le fauci spalancate sui portatori atterriti, o un elefante imbizzarrito che devasta il campo di spedizione. Nel mettere in ordine qualche tempo fa la casa della nonna do...

David Attenborough, Dion Leonard (Finding Gobi), Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences, from hilarious holidays with pets to journeys on which wild animals somehow came along for the ride, including: David Attenborough tries to get an armadillo through Paraguayan customs; advent...

This book addresses the tendency to mischaracterise liberalism as a “neoliberal” reform project, arguing that liberal political philosophy is concerned only to sustain the conditions that make individual freedom possible. This is illustrated with reference to the design of pensions. Considered in terms of liberal justice, retirement systems require redistributive transfers to help the poor, measures to ensure that retirees are rewarded on their merits, and provisions that treat everyone wi...