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      • Allen, Charles
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      • Bures, Frank
      • Bryson, Bill
      • 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
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      • 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.
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      • 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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Category: early 21st Century

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 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 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 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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August 30, 2016 alps / Cole, Teju / early 21st Century / europe / switzerland

Article: Teju Cole on Switzerland & the desire to be away from home

What is interesting is to find, in that continuity, the less-obvious differences of texture: the signs, the markings, the assemblages,

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August 27, 2016 adventure / asia / early 21st Century / kyrgystan / mountain / overland / snow & ice / two wheels

Video: The Road from Karakol

I chose a bike instead of a partner, the road instead of a basecamp.  I chose Krygyzstan.  Its intriguing network

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August 26, 2016 early 21st Century

Article: Pico Iyer on the joy of National Geographic

As a four-year-old in Oxford, I had scant chance of knowing what the Himalayas looked like….All we could do was

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August 22, 2016 berlin / budapest / early 21st Century / europe / germany / hungary

Article: Budapest to Berlin – stranger on a train, stranger still in Berlin

As we rolled out of the city, tracing the Danube back towards its source, a man served coffee and handed

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August 22, 2016 africa / early 21st Century / responsible tourism + volunteering

Article: Save yourself from being a white saviour when volunteering abroad

The conversation was always about ‘help, help, help,’ but nobody ever asked if what we were doing was needed. With

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August 16, 2016 early 21st Century / europe / i to p / Lee, Laurie / literary journey / on foot / quixotic / spain

Article: Alastair Humphreys busks his way across Spain in Laurie Lee’s footsteps

When you plan an adventure some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, “What is

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June 14, 2016 early 21st Century

Article: The candour of tourists

But a part of me admires the candor. I’ve been led to understand that, when traveling, one does not generally

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April 13, 2016 Bures, Frank / early 21st Century / guyana

Article: Frank Bures spills dirty secrets in Guyana

The world demands payment sooner or later, which is how we arrived at this uneasy nexus of reportage and promotion

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April 10, 2016 early 21st Century / india

Book: Sunil Khilnani travels India in search of 50 lives

Incarnations by Sunil Khilnani Allen Lane (2016) India’s past is an arena of ferocious contest, its dead heroes continually springing

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