I was toying with an Eric Newby in the library the other day, to add to the growing “to read” pile.
Who have you enjoyed reading? Paul Theroux, Gavin Young, Ted Simon (Jupiter’s Travels) and a more recent acolyte, Jonny Bealby. Bill Bryson...hmm...this list is rather blokish....Jan Morris (although was a man when she wrote her earlier books)...
Under the Dragon -- Rory MacLean (Burma)
The Snow Leopard -- Peter Matthiessen (Himalayas)
The Road to Oxiana -- Robert Byron (Persia/Afghanistan)
I did my PhD on travel writing. My all-time fave is Heine's Reisebilder (Travel Pictures).
I like Bill Bryson.
William Dalrymple - From the Holy Mountain
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/william-dalrymple/from-the-holy-mountain/
Patricia Storace - Dinner with Persephone (a Sorcha recommendation)
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/
97/12/07/reviews/20252.html
My old favourite - Jan Morris’ Europe, an Intimate Journey.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/aug/12/feat
uresreviews.guardianreview5
I once saw Bruce Chatwin in a supermarket. He was wearing a bottle-green velvet smoking jacket.
Ted Simon round the world on a Triumph Tiger- Jupiter's Travels:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110713125239/http://
www.jupitalia.com/bike.html
#7
Asda?
Waitrose, Cirencester.
Yes, I thought it would be something like that - rather than Neasden Kwiksave.
Patrick Leigh-Fermor.
I was thinking of composing a post that Neasden Kwiksave was more Leigh-Fermor's patch.
He was never hyphenated though.
Angry White Pajamas by Robert Twigger.
Jonathan Raban is tremendous, especially about Anerica.
Old Glory is my favourite, which is about a journey down the Mississippi.