Synopses & Reviews
Miles Clarke's moving and exhilarating biography establishes Miles and Beryl Smeeton as the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century. It is both a love story and an adventure story beyond compare.
Synopsis
Miles and Beryl Smeeton were the most accomplished traveling and adventuring couple of the 20th century. Armchair travelers will embrace their exceptional story--which visits exotic locales ranging from Poona and Patagonia to Alexandria and Cape Horn. With maps and photographs. ..".a remarkable book...intimate and affection... engrossing...A life told here in such poignant and well-described detail that it has something of the luminous quality of a myth."--Jonathan Raban.