My feature writing appeared in The Sunday Times, The Observer, Daily Mail and A La Carte magazine before I concentrated on full-time travel writing. Here are extracts from those writings covering the past thirty years, including my books ‘Talk to me, America’ and my autobiography, ‘Lost in the Reptile House’.
Tee-total Technology – an extract from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’
Somewhere in Europe, 1985
Day One of The Troubles – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’
Londonderry, August 12th, 1969
A day with Idi Amin – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’
Kampala, Uganda, July 25, 1975
Birth of a Nation – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’
Luanda, Angola, February 3rd, 1976
Locking out Mrs. Thatcher – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’
Chelsea, London, October 10th, 1976
The Boat People – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’
Kuala Terenggannu, November 27th, 1978
Seeking Aliens with the UFO Watchers - from ‘The Observer’
Cley Hill, Warminster, July 7th, 1979
Dr. Sheldon Rosenthal does a Facelift in LA – from the ‘Daily Mail’
Los Angeles, February 9th,1981
Tea with Barbara Cartland – from ‘Daily Mail’
Hatfield, Herts, June 18th, 1981
Seeking Patience Strong – from ‘The Sunday Times’
Somewhere in Southern England. December 7th, 1981
Awaiting interview with Our Man in Uganda as President Museveni is sworn in – from ‘Lost in the Reptile House.’
Kampala, January 28th, 1986
Boule at a Nudist Colony – from ‘Daily Mail’
Fareham, Hants, October 17th, 1997
Richard Rawley, Drifter – from ‘ Talk to me, America’
Green River, Utah, February 21st, 2000
The Man Who Boiled His Garden - from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’
Halifax, Yorkshire. September 1st, 2001
Returning to Drink After Six Years of Abstinence
- from ‘Lost in the Reptile House’
London