Great rivers of the world

by Alexander Frater, Colin Jones (Photographer)

Sixty-four pages of color photos highlight descriptions of eleven of the world's greatest rivers--some of which have been unreachable to westerners for years--written by outstanding writers including Paul Theroux, Bruce Chatwin, and Piers Paul Read

Genres: Travel

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1984

About the author

Alexander Frater has contributed to various UK publications--Miles Kington called him "the funniest man who wrote for Punch since the war"--and been a contracted New Yorker writer; as chief travel correspondent of the London Observer he won an unprecedented number of British Press Travel Awards. Two of his books, Beyond the Blue Horizon and Chasing the Monsoon, have been been into major BBC television films. One, the Last Aftican Flying Bat (based on the former), took the Bafta award for best single documentary, while a programme for BBC Radio 4 (about his South Seas birthplace) was named overall winner of the Travelex Travel Writers' Awards. He lives in London, though, whenever time and money allow, is likely to be found skulking deep in the hot, wet tropics.

Reviews

[Helen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was brilliant.
I learnt amazing facts about the world's rivers.