series, beginning next week called "People and Places''.

The first lecture titled "Adventures in Nepal'' will be given by Mrs. Ann Smith Gordon who described the country as "stupendous''.

"It is so beautiful, with incredible landscapes, and the people are charming, smiling and friendly,'' she said, adding that she took her photographs while clinging to a mountain, elephant, ox cart, riverboat or a Land rover.

Spectators can also expect to hear how Mrs. Smith Gordon saw a tiger with his kill just a few feet away, or how she survived the country's 1990 revolution for democracy and the shoot-to-kill curfew that was in place in Katmandu.

Nepal is located in Asia, and is surrounded by India and China.

Other lectures in the series will feature Kenya, Greenland and the mountain jungles of Uganda.

All the lectures will by given by various Bermudians who have visited these places, including Shadow Tourism Minister Mr. David Allen and photographer Mr.

Lloyd Webbe.

Organiser of the series Mr. Brian Horsefield said proceeds will be used to buy books for the college library. He said he also hoped that the lecture series will become an annual event.

Tickets for each lecture are $5 and $2 for students and members of the Friends of the College Library. Those wishing to become a member of Friends of the College Library need only to make a $25 donation.

Tickets for the lectures, which will begin on September 28 at 7 p.m., are available at the Bermuda College Library, Washington Mall Magazines, doctors offices in the Sea Venture Building and Twice Told Tales Book shop, both on Parliament Street.

The lectures -- which will be held at the Main Lecture Theatre in New Hall on the college's Stonington campus -- will be held on the last Thursday of each month between September and March, except in December.