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The White Mosque—A Silk Road Memoir: Sofia Samatar
Published by Catapult / C Hurst and Co Publishers, 2022, 336 pages “I’m haunted by a little piece of history, the story of a small, hardy, stubborn group of people who travelled here more than a hundred years ago.” In… Continue reading
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Wanderland—A Search for Magic in the Landscape: Jini Reddy
Published by Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2020, 272 pages “I was…sick of the anxiety. This was no way to live, I realized if I wanted to hang on to my sanity. It was time to just do the thing that I secretly… Continue reading
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Soundings—Journeys in the Company of Whales: Doreen Cunningham
Published by Blackstone Pub / Scribner, 2022, 320 pages “Then, the whales came. I heard them before I saw them, their breath hissing through the air. Punctuating the silence. The sound was so startling, so alien, it broke the world… Continue reading
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Basilicata—Authentic Italy: Karen Haid
Published by Hiller Press, 2020, 238 pages Karen Haid, who has spent many years in southern Italy and speaks Italian, explores Basilicata, the “instep of the Italian boot”. Basilicata is sandwiched between Puglia, Campania and Calabria, with Greek temples, medieval… Continue reading
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Following Nellie Bly—Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World: Rosemary J. Brown
Published by Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2021, 184 pages “I want to go around [the world] in eighty days or less. I think I can beat Phileas Fogg’s record. May I try it?” The idea came from Nellie Bly,… Continue reading
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Elsewhere—One Woman, One Rucksack, One Lifetime of Travel: Rosita Boland
Published by Doubleday, 2018, 272 pages Rosita Boland has a bad case of fernweh, an ache for distant places, a wanderlust which has her leaving her native Ireland to discover the world. “My friend Róisín once asked me why I loved… Continue reading
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Findings: Kathleen Jamie
Published by Graywolf Press, 2007, 190 pages I first read Findings during the Covid pandemic. It was a perfect book at a time when most of us had put our long-distance trips on hold and were instead taking our holidays closer… Continue reading
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Winter Pasture—One Woman’s Journey with China’s Kazakh Herders: Li Juan
Translated from Chinese by Jack Hargreaves and Yan YanPublished by Astra House, 2021, 320 pages Kazakh herders in China have been practicing their way of life for centuries. With their cattle, camels, sheep, and horses, they move from pasture to… Continue reading
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This Cold Heaven—Seven Seasons in Greenland: Gretel Ehrlich
Published by Vintage Books, 2001, 377 pages Greta Ehrich visited Greenland in the early 1990s. That was the first of many trips, as she fell under the spell of the place and its people. “My first trip to Greenland was… Continue reading
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Zaatar Days, Henna Nights—Adventures, Dreams, and Destinations Across the Middle East: Maliha Masood
Published by Hachette, 2007, 320 pages “Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” This quote from a poem by Mary Oliver obviously touched a chord with Maliha Masood, since she used it at the beginning of her… Continue reading
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