Kermit Lynch: Adventures On The Wine Route
an engaging (tho sexist) 1980s history of wine in France
Tag: travel writing
Journey to the Alcarria by Camilo José Cela
uninspiring 1940s travel writing
Vagaries Malicieux by Djuna Barnes
thoughts on a 1922 essay on travel
The Sign of the Cross by Colm Tóibín
a book almost squarely aimed at me
Travels With Myself And Another by Martha Gellhorn
another racist travel book
Limbo by Dan Fox
how limbo can you go?
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West
Wonderful, massive, beautiful, biased.
Homunculus by Aleksandar Prokopiev
Contemporary fairy tales from Macedonia
Mornings in Mexico by D. H. Lawrence
DHL happy in Mexico, then beautifully sad elsewhere.
On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset Maugham
Very Colonial travel writing from author of The Painted Veil
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
I review a Lawrentian travel writing collection containing Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Sketches of Etruscan Places.
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
I’ve accidentally grown a goatee and as a result of this I now look like a sex pervert*. This wasContinue Reading
Flaubert in Egypt by Gustave Flaubert (kind of)*
Flaubert in Egypt is ostensibly (though it isn’t) a book written by Gustave Flaubert about his hedonistic travels through EgyptContinue Reading
To Wetumpka by Ellis Sharp
A couple of weeks ago, I got a strange email from a small publishing house, Zoilus Press. They said thatContinue Reading
A Russian Journal by John Steinbeck
I’m going on a trip to Russia in about six weeks, so have begun my travel research. Unlike normal people,Continue Reading
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
Last Summer, whilst twatpacking* around the Mediterranean, Tunisair lost my backpack between Casablanca and Tunis. Though it contained nothing ofContinue Reading
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was one of the first writers I ever truly loved. When I was an undergraduate, many years ago,Continue Reading
Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It by Geoff Dyer
I have an odd relationship with the works of Geoff Dyer. There are books of his that I rate asContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 