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William Dalrymple cuts loose on the subject of travel writing in the Guardian
There I was wondering what on earth I could write about for my 200th POST, when my Blackberry blinked and buzzed and delivered up this article from Last Friday’s Guardian newspaper. William Dalrymple’s thoughts on travel literature deserve a reading because he is [...]
Today we are reading poll results.
Since we read anything that inspires and informs travel, it seems appropriate to read what the Travel Insights 100–travel writers and bloggers, including moi–have to say.
The first book to be given away (announcement of winner on August 17):
Destination: Caribbean and British Guiana
Book: The Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul
Quotable Thursday quote: I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul
The question is, if a man writes well, does it matter what kind of human being he is?
I delayed reading V. S. Naipaul because although [...]
Destination: Caribbean Islands
Book: The Traveller’s Tree by Patrick Leigh Fermor
When last seen in A Traveler’s Library, Patrick Leigh Fermor was hiking across the rough landscape of the Mani peninsula in Greece’s Peloponese. His journey to the Caribbean came between his adventures in Crete during the war and the many Greek journeys that he took [...]
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