Travel Writing
Revolutions and revelations
An epic bike ride from London to Tehran sheds light on links between the East and West
Pandemic panic on the River Plate
Going mano e mano with the malady of Montevideo
Punta del where?
Old Europe lives on in the new world
Too woke to travel write?
Perhaps a little less introspection will see a renaissance of the troubled genre
Hard times on the Black Dragon River
Thubron shows an unyielding willingness to listen to those he meets and attempt to understand their worlds
Disappearing dreamlands
Is Europe losing its interesting edges as temperatures climb year by year?
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise
The extraordinary life of Jan Morris
The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream