travel
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My Family and Other Enemies—Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland: Mary Novakovich
Published by Bradt, 2022, 268 pages “The beauty in small things seemed to speak Lika to me, a beauty that somehow held its own in this vast, sometimes overwhelming landscape. Orchards groaning with fruit, homemade cheeses hanging in muslin, ramshackle… Continue reading
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Stories of the Sahara: Sanmao
Translated from Chinese by Mike FuPublished by Bloomsbury Publishing, 1976, 416 pages Sanmao, a Taiwanese writer, had always been attracted to the desert. In the early 1970s, she and her Spanish partner José moved to El Aaiún, the capital of… Continue reading
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A Foodie Afloat: Di Murrell
Published by Troubador Publishing, 2020, 256 pages There are people who travel so they can tick places off their lists, and there are those who immerse themselves in their surroundings. Di Murrell belongs to the latter, having spent most of… Continue reading
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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
