High Endeavours: The Extraordinary Life and Adventures of Miles and Beryl Smeeton

Miles and Beryl Smeeton were the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century, living a charmed existence filled with passion. Armchair travelers will embrace their exceptional story, which visits exotic locales ranging from Poona and Patagonia to Alexandria and Cape Horn. With maps and photographs. ".a remarkable book.intimate and affectionate.engrossing.A life told here in such poignant and well-described detail that it has something of the luminous quality of a myth."--Jonathan Raban.