Books

Great Himalayan National Park

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..and the struggle to save the Western Himalayas In 1972, with my late wife, Anne-Marie, I trekked through Himachal Pradesh in the Western Himalayas from the Sutlej to the Beas valleys via the Bashleo Pass. Then, we lived downtown in Delhi and in April temperatures hovered around 40 degC. We needed to escape somehow. Now, … Read more

African Journey

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https://www.africanjourney.ca/ Fresh out of university in 1968, Tony Gaston set out to explore for birds in the Ahaggar Mountains of the central Sahara. Without a map or compass, he continued south to Niger and westwards to Liberia and Sierra Leone, traveling on trucks and buses and on foot through countries just emerging from colonialism. He … Read more