Selected articles
Pilgrims to the Mountain
The carvings of gods and heroes that King Antiochus had commissioned to adorn this mountain have now been weathered by two thousand years of winter snow and the fierce heat of summer.
With Don McCullin to the Frontier
it was like winning the prize in a travel competition, the chance to work alongside Britain’s most celebrated war-journalist and photographer, who had himself travelled with many of my literary heroes – such as Norman Lewis and Bruce Chatwin.
Book review: “Unreasonable Behaviour” by Don McCullin
… what makes him remarkable is his restless quest for the perfection of his craft continuously sharpened by a vast capacity for work
Travelling through the Troad with Don McCullin
Antinous was the beautiful, brave boy from the hills of North-West Turkey who loved hunting. He had become the Emperor’s acknowledged lover but at the height of their relationship he had drowned in the Nile, possibly an act of self-sacrifice on behalf of his beloved Emperor
A journey across Roman Asia Minor with Don McCullin
We were an odd group, one thin Turk from Antakya, one plump English publisher, a Turkish speaking New Yorker and the world’s most famous war photographer, Don McCullin.
On the Road Again with Don McCullin: Heading to Southwest Anatolia on the final leg of our Roman Roads adventure
I watched as the rain brought the colours of the circular marble floor of the orchestra pit into life, so the face of Medusa and her serpents glowed within an aura of ten rows of stylized feathers.
Travelling with Don McCullin in Lebanon
I am a plump, balding publisher of travel books with an immense capacity for wine, parties and picnics. We make an odd pair of travellers.
The Four Faces of Algeria
Algiers will always be married to its past. For her streets and her harbour walls have witnessed some of the most decisive engagements of recent world history.
A Grand Tour of the classical monuments of Algeria
Algiers has become another Rome to me. Like the eternal city, every street and hill of its complex topography echoes with some dramatic scene from history.
In Algeria with Don McCullin
Don, a genuine home-brewed product of London’s East End, was launching into an imitation of the precocious, slightly camp, auction-house accent of Bruce Chatwin. It was Chatwin who had first brought Don to Algeria, on the trail of a story that traced the Algerian war of independence right back to the massacre of Setif