Dr Tony Waltham is a geologist who graduated from Imperial College, London, and studied in the mines of Norway for his PhD. He was then a university lecturer for many years in Nottingham, where he taught mining and civil engineers, and pursued research into ground stability and geohazards.

Travel to faraway places has always taken all his free time, and the geological interest has taken him all over the world, notably to almost every country in Asia. In his younger days, cave exploration was a major delight, taking him on expeditions to caves in many countries, to the Himalayas of both Nepal and Tibet, and then to the great limestone lands of China.

Author of more than a dozen academic books and innumerable scientific papers, he now enjoys taking his own photographs for books, articles and lectures for a wider audience. He has taken geology tours to Jordan, Alaska, Kamchatka and elsewhere, has made films for television, still manages his Geophotos picture library and is on the Editorial Board of Geology Today. He has always loved the great outdoors, and still travels extensively – always with his wife, Jan, who appears as scale on many of his photos.

1. SCANDINAVIA AND THE NORTH
Volcanoes of Iceland
Geysers and geothermal features of Iceland
Glaciers and ice caps of Iceland
Iceland in winter
Arctic environments: landscapes in the freezer
Glaciers and fiords of Norway
The making of Norway: its landscapes, geology and mineral wealth
Geology and glaciers of Greenland
Castleguard: the cave beneath the icecap
Geology and glaciers of Svalbard
A reason to visit Archangelsk in winter

2. MEDITERRANEAN REGION
Landscapes of Dalmatia (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia)
The karst of Slovenia and Croatia (limestone landscapes and caves)
The sinking of Venice
Volcanoes of Naples (Vesuvius and Campi Flegri)
Volcanoes of Sicily (Etna and Stromboli etc)
Volcanoes of the Lipari Islands (Vulcano, Lipari, Stromboli etc)
Astraka and the Vicos Gorge (northern Greece)
The great canals: Suez, Corinth and Panama
Pipelines across Turkey
Geology and landscapes in southern Turkey
The Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Volcanoes that collapse (Canary Islands)
Volcanic landscapes (Lanzarote and Hawaii)

3. MIDDLE EAST AND INDIAN OCEAN
The Western deserts of Egypt
Petra and Wadi Rum: the geology of Jordan’s red sandstone
Rift valleys and volcanoes in the Danakil Desert (Ethiopia, Djibouti)
Delights of Yemen (Sana’a and the mountains)
The island wilderness of Socotra (Yemen)
Jabal Akhdar: the desert mountains of northern Oman
Desert geology in Oman
The amazing salt mountains of southern Iran
Geology and landscapes of India (from the Deccan to Ladakh)
Across the Himalayas to Ladakh
Slowly up the Ganges; holy cities and beautiful landscapes
Hill country of southern India, from the Ghats to the Nilgiris
Gemstone mines of Asia, Sri Lanka sapphires and Burma rubies

4. EASTERN ASIA AND FAR EAST
The wonderful coastline of the Andaman Sea (Burma, Thailand, Malaysia)
Down the Mekong: Asia’s great river (China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam)
The limestone towers of Halong Bay (Vietnam)
The world’s most amazing limestone landscapes: in southern China
The pilgrim trail to Mount Kailas: into the true heart of Asia
Travelling the modern Silk Road into China
North Korea and South Korea – the ultimate contrast
Volcanoes and hot springs in Japan
The winter ice festivals of Harbin and Sapporo (China and Japan)
Volcanic geology of Kamchatka: Russia’s remote peninsula
Geological treats in the Philippines
Gunung Mulu: the making of a national park (Sarawak, Borneo)
Search for water in Gunung Sewu (Java, Indonesia)
Volcanoes and earthquakes on the plate boundary of Java and Sumatra
Mineral wealth of Australia
The red centre of Australia
Queensland: from savannah to rain forest
Islands of the Pacific: Fiji, Vanuatu, Palau

5. CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA
Volcanoes of the Caribbean Antilles
Backroads of Cuba
Into the Cockpit Country of Jamaica
Ground subsidence and hurricane floods: the Mississippi and New Orleans
From the Yucatan to Chiapas: the best of southern Mexico
From Baja to Chihuahua, including the Copper Canyon country
Volcanic terrains of Central America
Delights of Costa Rica
Christmas is colder away from the Caribbean
Civil engineering meets geology: the Panama Canal
Andean altiplano
Atacama and the coastal deserts of South America
Volcanoes of the Andes
From Rio to Janelao: into the hills of Brazil
The granite towers of Patagonia
Glaciers and glaciation of the Chilean Fjords

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