Books by John Pilkington

John Pilkington has spent much of his life travelling to faraway places. In 1982, after journeys in Africa and Latin America, he set off for Nepal. The story of his 500-mile walk across the western Nepal Himalaya was told in Into Thin Air, 1985. His interest in Asia grew further with the opening in 1986 of the border between China and Pakistan. This made it possible - for the first time for forty years - to retrace virtually the whole length of the Silk Road. His book about the journey, An Adventure on the Old Silk Road, was published by Century in 1989. In the last two years he has written for The Sunday Times, the Sunday Correspondent and Geographical Magazine, and has contributed to several radio and television programmes. His radio programme about Patagonia, entitled The Uttermost Part of the Earth, was broadcast by the BBC's World Service in 1991. In between foreign trips he writes, draws, cycles, walks and promotes the work of Intermediate Technology, a charity to which he has donated many of the proceeds from his books.