Travel writing
-
Only a quarter of the titles submitted to this year’s Dolman Travel Book award were women, despite Mary Kingsley and Matha Gellhorn demonstrating that women make excellent travellers
-
-
The author on his recovery after a stroke and his fears for a dis-United States
-
-
The first appearance in English of a wonderful collection of articles by Joseph Roth captures his wanderings in cosmopolitan society before the rise of Nazism
-
Madeleine Bunting’s thrilling voyage through the islands considers their poetic appeal and place in national culture
-
From true accounts of harrowing ascents, to more fantastic ventures in Shangri-La and Shambhala, here are some of the best tales about the Himalayas
-
Handwritten book full of crossings-out and comments reveals Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles
-
Much admired by Graham Green and Evelyn Waugh, Robert Byron’s dazzling, timeless account of a journey to Afghanistan is perhaps the greatest travel book of the 20th century
-
Stewart reflects on empire, identity and landscape in this memorable account of his frustrating journey with his father along Hadrian’s Wall
-
The lives of two colourful veterans of British travel writing are uncovered with contrasting success
-
To mark her 90th birthday, Jan Morris’s agent writes in praise of an extraordinary journalist, historian, traveller and free spirit, who has shown us the world
-
The passage of time makes Andrew Solomon’s elegant collection of travel pieces even more poignant
-
This elegant book considers defiant female walkers from Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Woolf to the author, and celebrates the freedom of being on the move
-
The continent that ‘both invites and resists understanding’ has always fascinated the travel writer. And his favourite country is today the saddest: Syria
-
What the critics thought of The Mare by Mary Gaitskill, The Allegations by Mark Lawson and White Sands by Geoff Dyer
-
It is 14 years since Colin Thubron’s last novel but, he explains, there was research to do, which meant a lot of travelling…
-
Louise Linton’s cliche-ridden memoir of her gap year in Africa was met with scorn and anger earlier this month. We asked three writers why travel writing about the continent needs to change – and how
-
Flirting in Beijing, failing to see the northern lights, suffering a stroke in LA … Dyer is a laconic, amusing travelling companion, who is increasingly interested in permanence and transience
-
Hair-raising stories from the fishing ports of Cadgwith and Newlyn reveal a Cornwall very different from that known to tourists and second-home owners
100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time The 100 best nonfiction books: No 57 – Travels With a Donkey in the Cévennes by Robert Louis Stevenson (1879)