Book review – travel writing
Can’t anyone travel for fun any more?
There was a time when travel writers would set off with a spring in their step: Coleridge knocking the bristles…
For fashionable Victorian travellers, the only way was Norway
‘The only use of a gentleman in travelling,’ Emmeline Lowe wrote in 1857, ‘is to take care of the luggage.’…
The bonkers (and not-so-bonkers) theories of what the pre-historic people of Cornwall believed
Philip Marsden’s book is about place. He makes a distinction between place and space. In his mind ‘place’ is something…
In the steppes of a warlord
Joanna Kavenna is impressed by one man’s 6,000-mile ride through some of the loneliest regions on earth
