Featured Image: Detail from Vase with wucai polychrome decoration of one hundred deer motif, Wanlai reign, Ming dynasty 1573-1620. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 October 2024 My first visit to Taiwan was permeated with ignorance, which stimulated me to write articles because Taiwan fascinated me in unusual ways. The first article First Visit to Taiwan summarised what I …
Rain, Danger in Sust, Pakistan: Our Trip 5
Featured Image: Magnificent Glacier Riven Mustagh Ata, 7546m, between Tashkurgan and Kashgar, China, 1995 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 May 2022 This is the sixth article in travelling the Karakorum Highway series. The others are: 1 The Karakorum Highway (KKH), 2 The Lower Karakorum Highway, 3 Besham to Gilgit, the Terrain, 4 Extreme Polo in Gilgit, 5 The Hunza Valley, 7 Passu Paradise. The …
The Karakorum Highway KKH
Featured Image: Nanga Parbat, the ‘Killer Mountain’ 8126 metres, from Fairy Meadow, 1995 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 April 2021 This is the first article in travelling the Karakorum Highway series. The others are: 2 The Lower Karakorum Highway, 3 Besham to Gilgit, the Terrain, 4 Extreme Polo in Gilgit, 5 The Hunza Valley, 6 Rain, Danger Sust, 7 Passu …
Secret City Trilogy Steve Lewis & Chris Uhlmann
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 21 November 2016 A few of my more random reviews of terrific books are: 1 Roy Lewis The Evolution Man (also Sci Fi), 2 Sean Dooley (on birds), 3 Giulia Enders Gut, 4 Marie Kondo Tidying, 5 Secret City (Canberra spy series), 6 Atoms, Bytes, Genes (21st C convergence in science), 7 EM Foner Union …
The last days of Osama bin Laden 2: 9/11
Featured photo: Tony 1995, Afghan, money exchange market, Peshawar Bazaar Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 9 August 2015 I want to begin by stating I have no expertise on these matters and am relying on the accounts and expertise of others. However, I do have an interest in the events and hopefully many others in the world do …
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