The reissue of a Simon Winchester classicIn 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great.His adventures in these distant and forgotten ends of the earth make compelling and often funny reading.With a new introduction and additional material in many of the chapters, this revised edition tells us what has happened while the author's been away.