A Touch of Elegance and Rugged Simplicity ......

Photographer Peter Beard

He needs no further introduction...from Africa to New York....or from New York to Africa...Photographer - Traveller - Artist - Author ...Peter Beard...and some of his works of art...

Enjoy - The Beauty of Women... 

Photo by Peter Beard - Eva Mendes

  

Photo by Peter Beard - Eva Mendes

Photo by Peter Beard - Eva Mendes

Photo by Peter Beard - 1963

Photo by Peter Beard - Jenny's Jewelry, Montauk - 2006

  

Photo by Peter Beard - Princess Loingalani, El Molo Bay, Lake Rudolf, Kenya - 1967

Maureen Gallagher and a night feeder at Hog Ranch,February - 1987

Photo by Peter Beard - Veruschka

Photo by Peter Beard - Iman - 1985

Peter Beard and Iman

Hunting and Gatherings for your study

Tobacco is bad for your health...so it might be better just to keep it for your collection....

Time Will Tell....

Vintage Tobacco - "Safari" Blended for Active Sportsmen from Abercrombie & Fitch

dunhill pipe set - 7 days - Monday to Sunday

dunhill pipe set - 1933

dunhill tobacco jar

dunhill flasks

dunhill lighter wrapped in crocodile....

Clip-on Ashtrays (Asprey) for your Roorkhee chair...

add another Roorkhee chair (FM Allen)...we just....need them...

Traveling cups

if you have more needs - a pair of folding camp/fishing stools (Mulholland Brothers) 

From Nigeria to .......

(Photos by Tavarua)

a Spring Charity Event - in Europe.....

"A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."

- Alexander Smith 

Very nice indeed...but I prefer to be back...

...under the Tropical Sun...being barefoot wearing a kikoy...

"I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."

- Mahatma Gandhi

Hugo Adolf Bernatzik (1897 - 1953) - Traveler, Writer, Photographer & Anthropologist

He traveled in Morocco, Northwest Africa, Sudan, Somaliland, Egypt and made expeditions to the Solomon Island, Guinea and Southeast Asia in the 1930s.

(Photos by Hugo Adolf Bernatzik)

Absolutely Brilliant - Peking to Paris 2013 - Driving the Impossible.........

33 Days - driving vintage and classic cars half-way around the world through some of the remotest places on earth...

Mark your calendar...

Peking to Paris
May 15th - June 16th, 2013 

http://www.pekingparis.com/

Peking - Great Wall of China - Inner Mongolia - Gobi Desert - Outer Mongolia - Ulaan Baatar - Khovd - Russia - Novosibirsk - Omsk - Tyumen - Samara - Ukraine - Kiev - Poland - Krakow - Bratislava - Salzburg - Lucerne - France - Paris

The Pioneers

"In 1907 the first-ever trans-Continental motor-rally between Peking and Paris became an epic challenge between a Prince and a Pauper – Prince Borghese had the best funded entry and carefully researched the conditions of setting out on a journey where the first 5,000 miles saw no roads, at all, so, no maps and no garages. His chief rival was a fair-ground worker who until he read news of the race in a Paris newspaper, Le Matin, picked up blowing in the wind, had never even sat in a motor-car, so had no idea how to drive one.

Five cars set out from Peking, four made it to Paris to a tumultuous welcome and world-wide fame – they had set out to prove that man and machine could now go anywhere, they hoped it would make borders between countries redundant. They had left Peking with no passports – these had been confiscated by Chinese authorities who suspected they were spies, and had no interest in seeing the success of the motor-car having just invested in shares in the trans-Siberian railway."

Hunting and Gatherings

Hermès - Saddle

 

Swaine Adeney & Brigg - Gladstone Bag

Elephant Sculpture by Artist Kent Ullberg

Albert Slippers from Holland & Holland

"Essay on Shooting"