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INTRODUCTION Above nil else do not lose your desire to walk. Kierkegaard Scientists now believe that the earliest humans who left the forest to live on the African plains several million years ago were nomadic. In other words they walked. But they didn't walk just to fetch water or to find...

1 Introducing Tenerife The largest of the Canary Islands, Tenerife is also the most attractive and diverse. Dominated by the snowcapped volcano of Mount Teide, the highest mountain in Spain at a height of 3718m (12,199ft), the island also has pine forests, deep ravines or barrancos, banana...

Profile of Egypt Where Africa rubs shoulders with Asia lies the country where modern civilization began. It cradled the first Imperial society, and the monumental achievements of its first rulers are familiar to modern man thousands of years after their lives. Their legacy Is in architectural...

1 Introducing Malta Rugged limestone outcrops rising out of the glittering Mediterranean Sea, the Maltese islands are a compact and fascinating blend of history, holidays and friendly small-island hospitality. Malta's colourful past ranges from its earliest inhabitants, who built temples on the...

FROM SIK'AR TO CIGAR iThe Story of the Cigar "He twirled a gay guitar He smoked the sweetest cigar. He lay in the grass With the head of the class And left her all ajar." M.L. Rosenthal, Blue Boy on Skates igar-smoking has always had a mystique, an air of panache and style. Today this is...

Introducing Mauritius i't Like a rich green emerald, swathed in the translucent, turquoise silk of the southwest Indian Ocean, Mauritius is a small island which has only recently, since the early 1980s, made a sizeable impact on world tourism. Only 67km (42 miles) in length and 46km (29 miles)...