Aaron, Moses
Aaron, Ron
Adesida, Dotun
Al-Assady, Abdul-Settar
Banerjee, Arunabh
Baraka, Ahmed
Beal, Mark
Binx, Eugene
Bisht, Pushkar
Brown, Dr. Glen
Buck, Gail
Chambers, Eric
Chambers, Lesley
Chappel, T. A.
Chi, Anson
Coakley, Mark
Coelho, Paulo
Culling, Peter
Diwivedi, Tripuresh Dhar
Dufort, Mike
Ebony, Ojo Iredia
Falit, Joseph E.
Fawcett, Shaun
Fitzgerald-Clarke, Michael
Fleming, Suzanne
Fries, Todd
Gheorghiu, Cristache
GOrDon, Gregory
Huchu, Tendai
Izuogu, Victor
Jacobsen, Heidi
King, Nigel
Kumar, G. Ram
Lake, Gina
LaRocca, Kay
Lay, Vicheka
Litt, Dr. Jerome Z.
Majumdar, Pritis Chandra
McCulloch, Iain
Merrow, Liz
Miller, Harley
Maffey, Laura
Maffey, Riccardo
Milazzo, Ronald
Minya, Dzimba
Nath, Bhasurananda
Neo
Nirmala
O'Brien, Benjamin
Okonkwo, Ikechukwu
Patterson, R.J.
Purcar, Gabriela
Ridner, Melanie
Rinaldi, Jacquie
Roberts, Ella
Rutz, Gary
Sharp, Ian
Sooriyarachchi, Janaki
Spudich, Giulietta
Ştef, Dorin
Stull, Blaire
Taylor, Roy
Thomas, Dennis
Thompson, Tantse
Turley, Keith
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Peter Culling was born and educated in Essex, England. He worked as a projects engineer for London Electricity and became a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Incorporated Engineers. As an active amateur astronomer he became a member of the British Astronomical Association and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Peter and his wife Audrey spent a year traveling around Scandinavia, Russia, the Balkans, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Iran in a converted Land Rover. On returning to England, Peter published an account of his journeys through these lands. His interest in ethnic tribal groupings resulted in his undertaking journeys to other locations in South East Asia, China and Africa.
He now lives in Nidderdale, an area of outstanding natural beauty near Pateley Bridge, in North Yorkshire, England. Peter has developed a great interest in photography. His work has been exhibited locally and at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate and the Leeds City Art Gallery.
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The Isle of Enniskerry begins with an uninhabited island, a millionaire, and the chance for fifty assorted people to begin a new life. When Jim Henderson wins over five million pounds on the lottery he decides to buy an uninhabited Scottish island and establish a self-supporting community believing that “journeys, like artists are born, and not made.... They flow spontaneously out of the demands of our natures....” Being a young widower, he needs to start his life again away from the city, searching for - and finding - a new meaning for his existence. This new life consists of building or renovating crofts and building a community from scratch – give a man a fish, and you are helping him a little bit for a very short while; teach him the art of fishing, and you have helped him to become not only self-supporting, but also self-reliant and independent.
Gradually the democratically run island moves into tourism and a money-based economy. The number of inhabitants doubles and few leave - it is undoubtedly a success. Mixing practicalities with romance, adventure and humour, Peter Culling makes the reader feel they are actually there, going back to a simpler life and leaving behind the stresses of the twenty-first century.
 
A look at some breathtaking pictures in the National Geographic and an urge to whet their appetites for adventure, led the author and his wife to undertake a one year journey through Europe and the Middle East, covering approximately 25,000 miles in a converted Land Rover.
The countries visited, over forty years ago and often within a totally inadequate period of time, included Belgium, Holland, Northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Northern Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Southern Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania, Austria, Switzerland, and France.
‘A Year to Remember’, which remained dormant for a period of thirty years, recalls the events experienced by the author and his wife during this journey. This book is a memoir of the lasting friendships made and homes visited into which they were freely invited. The reader will note that the geography of several international borders has changed and will be aware that wars and mass tourism have rendered some of the places described as almost unrecognisable today. Perhaps this is the value of this memoir, for in spite of the lure of these locations for the modern day traveler, so many of the most memorable places that were visited, regretfully now no longer have the same attraction for the author to revisit. The world has changed and the events of the past cannot really be re-created. The natural beauty of so many places has also been altered and so this book does, perhaps, illustrate the value of what was experienced on that eventful journey.
When Jim Henderson travels to the remote regions of Northern Thailand and moves among the opium growing tribal villages he unexpectedly spots a large, leather bound book. It is only years later that it becomes apparent that it was probably a very old and actually very valuable illuminated manuscript which had been stolen. He sets out with his family to track it down and this journey leads them from Thailand to Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, India and then back to England. As a direct result of his enquiries, his two sons are attacked and his daughter is abducted and held as a hostage. A private detective is employed and the police, Interpol and others are all involved in the endeavour to break an international ring of art thieves whose masters are located in New York and Tokyo.
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