Bandits, crocs and KGB honey-traps: All in a day’s work for explorer John Blashford-Snell
MEMOIR FROM UTMOST EAST TO UTMOST WEST by John Blashford-Snell (Bradt £14.99, 541pp) The trick when having a meeting with the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, apparently, was to bow down so low as you reversed out of the Royal…