It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

There can be few situations more fearful than breaking down in darkness on the highway leading to Casablanca. I have rarely felt quite so vulnerable or alone.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.