Mark Shand: 4 books

Ogni vecchia dimora inglese nasconde tra le sue mura qualche disegno, un dipinto o magari un’incantevole, polverosa illustrazione d’epoca co-loniale in cui è possibile contemplare l’intrepido esploratore che si avventura nel fitto della giungla minacciosa, oppure una gigantesca tigre del Bengala...

With the help of a Maratha nobleman, Mark Shand bought an elephant named Tara and rode her over six hundred miles across India to the Sonepur Mela, the world's oldest elephant market. From Bhim, a drink-racked mahout, Shand learned to ride and care for her. From his friend Aditya Patankar he learned...

David Attenborough, Dion Leonard (Finding Gobi), Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences,...

This book addresses the tendency to mischaracterise liberalism as a “neoliberal” reform project, arguing that liberal political philosophy is concerned only to sustain the conditions that make individual freedom possible. This is illustrated with reference to the design of pensions. Considered...