Howard Michael Beck's Blog (4)

This is an ideal book to enjoy, relax with and make peace with your inner sensibilities, alternatively to give as a gift to anyone recovering from trauma or feeling a little under the weather, or down and out. Open the door into this splendid little volume and allow yourself to become absorbed in its therapeutic pages. Feast your eyes on the colours, allow…

A travel narrative:

Journeys Through the World's Driest Desert

This recounts an extended journey in the Atacama Desert and High Altiplano of South America. The Atacama is the driest non-polar desert one earth, comprising 181,000 square kilometres of ancient lava flows, sand and blinding salt pans…

Dig into some real history and expose the roots of England’s largest county... Peel away the ‘onion-skin’ layers of time — historical veneers — to discover how each wave of invaders added their own unique ingredient to the cultural melting pot, out of which emerged a blend that became the modern county.



Learn how Stone Age man…

The enticing title tells the story of Howard Beck’s journey through Chile from south to north and it is a good read. The author’s writing is sometimes lyrical, often lively and amusing, always informative as he describes the pains (Paines?) and pleasures of travelling alone. The author travels to places most of us will only know from television, magazines and, of course,…