The Book Trunk

Travel

  • Jungle Adventure

    Lt Col Percy Fawcett pictured in 1911. One of the many nice things about volunteering in an Oxfam bookshop is that you come across all sorts of hidden gems and unknown books which you wouldn’t normally seek out. Exploration Fawcett,… Continue reading

  • Canals, slaves and railways!

    The remains of the lock gates reflected in the water. Question: How do you boost your town’s wealth and trade when there’s no decent road network linking you to the rest of Britain, but you’re only a mile and a… Continue reading

  • Love Among the Butterflies

    One of my daughters took this photograph in the museum at Plymouth. The butterflies on display are not from Margaret Fountaine’s collection, but I like the picture! Margaret Fountaine was a feisty Victorian Englishwoman of independent means who travelled the… Continue reading

  • Saturday Snapshots In A ‘Royal’ Village

    This week’s Saturday Snaphots were taken in Newton Regis, which claims to be the most northerly village in Warwickshire, and if you think they don’t look very seasonal that’s because they were taken back in April, when my elder daughter… Continue reading