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      • Butcher, Tim
      • Camus, Albert
      • Canetti, Elias
      • Chesterton, G.K.
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      • Cole, Teju
      • Dahl, Roald
      • Dalrymple, William
      • Danziger, Nick
      • Davidson, Robyn
      • Day, Jon
      • de Botton, Alain
      • Debray, Régis
      • du Maurier, Daphne
      • Dunlop, Nic
      • Durrell, Lawrence
      • Eames, Andrew
      • Elkin, Lauren
      • Fawcett, Percy
      • Feltham, Owen
      • Fleming, Ian
      • Fleming, Peter
      • Franck, Harry A
      • Frankopan, Peter
      • Galton, Francis
      • Glazebrook, Philip
      • Goulding, Matt
      • Grann, David
      • Greene, Barbara
      • Greene, Graham
      • Grescoe, Taras
      • Hahn, Emily
      • Halliburton, Richard
      • Hemingway, Ernest
      • Hirst, Francis Wrigley
      • Hopkirk, Peter
      • Hughes, Bettany
      • Huxley, Aldous
    • i to p
      • Isherwood, Christopher
      • Iyer, Pico
      • Kapuscinski, Ryszard
      • Kassabova, Kapka
      • Kleveman, Lutz
      • Krakauer, Jon
      • Král, Petr
      • Kurlansky, Mark
      • Lansky, Doug
      • Lee, Laurie
      • Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget)
      • Levi, Carlo
      • Lewis, Norman
      • Lindqvist, Sven
      • Luiselli, Valeria
      • MacDonald, Ramsay
      • Macfarlane, Robert
      • MacLean, Rory
      • Maillart, Ella
      • Mak, Geert
      • Marías, Javier
      • McCarthy, Andrew
      • Miller, Henry
      • Morand, Paul
      • Morris, Jan
      • Neufeld, Josh
      • Newby, Eric
      • O’Shea, Stephen
      • Palin, Michael
      • Pamuk, Orhan
      • Pomerantsev, Peter
      • Potts, Rolf
      • Pritchett, V.S.
    • q to z
      • Raban, Jonathan
      • Reeves, Simon
      • Roth, Joseph
      • Salak, Kira
      • Santayana, George
      • Slessor, Tim
      • Stark, Freya
      • Stasiuk, Andrzej
      • Stevenson, Robert Louis
      • Swick, Thomas
      • Szerb, Antal
      • Theroux, Paul
      • Thompson, Craig
      • Thomson, Hugh
      • Thubron, Colin
      • Twain, Mark
      • Waugh, Evelyn
      • Webster, Jason
      • Wharton, Edith
      • Wood, Levison
      • Woodsworth, Nicholas
      • Wyndham, Richard
      • Young, Gavin
      • Zweig, Stefan
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June 16, 2017 1990s / 20th century / afloat / asia / at sea / borneo / indonesia / kalimantan / literary journey / q to z / singapore / sulawesi (celebes) / travel book / Young, Gavin

Searching for Conrad in Southeast Asia with Gavin Young

“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear,

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April 13, 2017 early 20th century (pre-1920)

Article: The Economist’s editor on foreign travel in 1913

THINGS near us are seen life-size, and distance, while it enchants the imagination, destroys the reality. That is a good

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April 11, 2017 1970s / a to h / adventure / australasia / Davidson, Robyn / desert / four legs / late 20th century / on foot

Book & Video: Photographing Robyn Davidson’s Tracks

Tracks by Robyn Davidson Tracks, by Robyn Davidson, is one of those books which you know of and have an idea of

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April 7, 2017 a to h / Allen, Tom / Camino de Santiago / early 21st Century / europe / Grescoe, Taras / on foot / pilgrim / spain

Article & book: The Camino de Santiago & travel snobbery

We live in a world of systems and safety nets, and we learn at an early age how to navigate

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March 24, 2017 1930s / 1940s / a to h / africa / athens / Dahl, Roald / desert / egypt / europe / expat / four wheels / greece / israel / Second World War / soldier / tanzania / up in the air

Two Books & audio: Going Solo & Love from Boy – Roald Dahl’s adventures abroad

Going Solo by Roald Dahl Published by Penguin (1986) I loved that journey. I loved it, I think, because I

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March 18, 2017 1920s / 1930s / 20th century / a to h / at sea / early 20th century (pre-1920) / four wheels / Franck, Harry A / Interwar / latin america / on the tracks / round the world / up in the air

Book: Harry Franck’s All About Going Abroad (1,411 words)

All About Going Abroad  by Harry A. Franck   Brentano’s, New York (1927) The first obvious question of the prospective

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March 16, 2017 athens / early 21st Century / europe / greece

Article: Democracy, graffiti & hope in Greece

A voice in the haze ruminated about “the financial terrorism” that led to Greece’s economic crisis. An elegant old woman

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March 10, 2017 denmark / early 21st Century / europe / faroe islands

Article & Video: Of Land & Sea, Boat magazine in the Faroe Islands

The islands are almost eerily void of man-made sound.  The wind whistles, the sheep bellow, the waves crash against the

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March 10, 2017 1940s / 1950s / 20th century / africa / algeria / Camus, Albert / Post War / reportage

Article & Book: Albert Camus on awareness, happiness, travel & Algeria

For what gives value to travel is fear This well known quote attributed to Albert Camus often appears in lists

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March 6, 2017 berlin / early 21st Century / europe / germany / italy / literary journey / Morris, Jan / trieste

Books & Audio: A Papertrail to Elsewhere – 3 books about places

Thanks to a caffeine break at Kioskafe near Paddington while cycling to work one morning last week, I stumbled across

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February 12, 2017 1930s / a to h / at sea / four legs / Greene, Graham / Interwar / jungle / mexico / river / travelogue / tropics

Book: Graham Greene’s The Lawless Roads (1,276 words)

The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene Vintage, 1st published in 1939 Only the bullet-hole in the porch showed the flaw

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February 10, 2017 asia / bhutan / early 21st Century / mountain / reportage

Article: ‘End of the road’ for Bhutan’s identity? (724 words)

The road makes me happy,” she says, “as it will greatly improve my family’s living conditions and make life easier.

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February 4, 2017 20th century / a to h / Day, Jon / early 21st Century / england / two wheels / urban / city

Book & Video: All aboard the cyclists’ special (15m27s)

And as I rose up and knew I was tired and I continued my journey. (Edward Thomas) Two contrasting pieces

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October 8, 2016 19th century / four legs / france / on foot / Stevenson, Robert Louis / travelogue

Book: RL Stevenson’s Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Travels With a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (1879) But we are all travellers in what John

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September 18, 2016 1920s / 20th century / egypt / england / france / georgia / greece / hawaii / honolulu / india / Interwar / israel / istanbul / italy / MacDonald, Ramsay / scotland / syria / turkey / united states

Book: Wanderings & excursions of a Prime Minister

The wanderlust is perhaps the most precious of all the troublesome appetites of the soul of man. Ramsay MacDonald was

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