Pembroke Castle: The Fortress Where the Tudor Dynasty Was Born
Every so often a castle does more than witness history; it makes it. Pembroke, standing on a great rock almost surrounded by a tidal river in the far south-west of
Pemón, Savanna Dwellers Beneath the Sacred Tepuis of the Gran Sabana
In the high, rolling grasslands of southeastern Venezuela, where flat-topped mountains rise like islands above a sea of savanna, lives a people whose homeland ranks among the most spectacular landscapes
People of Honey and the Kuray, the Story of the Bashkirs of the Urals
The story of the Bashkirs, the Turkic people of the southern Urals, famed for their wild honey and the music of the kuray, from the age of the steppe nomads to the modern Republic of Bashkortostan.
People of the Arid Frontier, the Story of the Baloch
Across the deserts and black mountains where Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan meet, the story of the Baloch: their migration, their language and ballads, their code of honor, and their divided homeland.
People of the Carpet and the Golden Horse, the Story of the Turkmen
An Oghuz Turkic people of the Karakum desert, the Turkmen kept a fierce tribal independence, famed for their deep-red knotted carpets and the golden Akhal-Teke horse.
People of the High Mountains, the Story of the Hazaras of Afghanistan
From the snowbound valleys of the Hazarajat, the story of the Hazaras: their debated origins, their Persian dialect, their Shia faith, their resilience through persecution, and their remarkable hunger for education.
People of the High Mountains, the Story of the Kyrgyz of the Tian Shan
A Turkic mountain people of the Tian Shan, the Kyrgyz built a nomadic culture of horse, yurt, and felt, and keep the Epic of Manas, one of the longest oral poems in the world.
People of the Land of Five Rivers, How the Punjabis Fed a Subcontinent and Danced Across the World
Farmers, soldiers, and founders of the Sikh faith, split by Partition yet united in spirit, the Punjabis carry their warmth and resilience across the globe.
People of the Sacred Lake, the Story of the Buryats
Around the deepest lake on earth lives the largest native people of Siberia. This is the story of the Buryats, a Mongol nation of herders, shamans, and Buddhist monks by the shores of Baikal.
People of the Silk Road Cities, the Story of the Uzbeks of Central Asia
The most numerous people of Central Asia, the Uzbeks are heirs to the Silk Road cities of Samarkand and Bukhara, blending Turkic and Persian worlds into a great settled civilisation.
