Penguin Books Australia

Jim Flynn is on a mission to change how we think about the modern world, our place in it, and the moral choices we make. In The Torchlight List he argued that great literature can change lives. Now in Fate & Philosophy , he looks at tough moral decisions we face and urges us not to be influenced by subconscious conditioning inherited from our parents, our religion, or any other source.

'With this impassioned volume Bullough has struck a blow for the glory of the Caucasus and helped to give voice to the voiceless' 
Justin Marozzi, Financial Times
 

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One of the most brilliant journalists of the postwar world, Kapuscinski (born 1932) spent decades criss-crossing Africa, witnessing the horrors of a continent ravaged by imperialism and its aftershocks. Humane, evocative and magical, The Cobra's Heart makes the case for Kapuscinski as a great writer as well as a great journalist.

On the second of his three great voyages, James Cook (1728-1779) took on the most frightening of all his challenges – to travel as far south as possible, to regions never before explored, in the hope of finding a new great continent which could be settled by the British. He found the continent – but it was horrifically different from what had been hoped for.

Disguised as a Persian dervish, Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) set out to become the first Christian to penetrate the Muslim shrines of Medina and Mecca – a reckless stunt that would have resulted in his being executed if discovered. Endlessly observant, amused, boastful and engaging, Burton here describes his time in Cairo, his crossing of the Red Sea in a crazily overloaded pilgrim boat and...