Outposts - Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

In 1985 Simon Winchester, struck by the sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He travelled 100,000 miles back and forth from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean to the Far East, to capture a last glint of imperial glory... His destinations were: British Indian Ocean Territory and Diego Garcia, Tristan, Gibraltar, Ascension Island, St Helena, Hong Kong, Bermuda, the British West Indies, the Falkland Islands, Pitcairn and other territories...