Travels with My Hat is a memoir of my adventures as a travel writer
in Africa, South Asia and the Arab world. Beautifully designed, it is lavishly illustrated with
photographs and maps and includes poignant correspondence with my mother who had never left Australia.
GREAT MOMENTS IN TRAVEL
When I would think, well this is what I've come for and the physical and psychological demands of the effort to get here, are now worth it...
MY MOROCCO
When I first set foot in Morocco as a young backpacker in the 1960s,
I was captivated by the ever changing desert and mountain scenery, its colourful peoples
and fascinating souqs. My book Collins Independent Travellers Guide to Morocco was published in 1990.
WORLD WATER DAY
Some 1.3 billion people in the world lack access to clean water. Women and children spend an estimated 200 million hours a day hauling water, often over great distances from the source. Here Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa, one of the driest places on earth.
Photo Library Collections
Thousands of images covering travel, culture and religions can be found in Christine Osborne Pictures and the World Religions Photo Library
2 billion people worldwide have no ready access to fresh drinking water.
Two children carrying a tin of water in the drought stricken region of east EthiopiaThese women in the western Punjab of Pakistan walk 25 kms a day to fetch water from a canal
Access to fresh water is a right, not a privilege. Here a slum child bathes in a bucket in Manila.
Climate change means floods for some but other regions are experiencing extreme drought.
A farmer in Sindh stands in his field of wheat destroyed by the rising water table bringing up salt, background.
Children fetching water from a well on Mafi’a Island, Tanzania
6-8 million deaths occur each year from contaminated drinking water
Images are available from: copix2@bigpond.com
About Travels with My Hat
Australian photojournalist and author. Used London as a base for nearly forty years while freelancing in the Middle East, Arabian peninsular, Africa and South Asia. Have written and illustrated more than a dozen books and travel guides. Operates a well regarded religious images stock photo library: www.worldreligions.co.uk. Live in Leura in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney.
I didn’t notice anything about this special day in our media. My many years living in either near-drought or drought conditions in NSW cemented in me a permanent care for every drop of water. Great photos.
I didn’t notice anything about this special day in our media. My many years living in either near-drought or drought conditions in NSW cemented in me a permanent care for every drop of water. Great photos.