The New Granta Book Of Travel
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The New Granta Book of Travel
Author: Albino Ochero-Okello
language: en
Publisher: Granta Publications
Release Date: 2011-11-03
A collection of travel writing by some of the genre’s finest authors, from Paul Theroux to Sara Wheeler, voyaging from Mississippi to Malawi and Thailand. The New Granta Book of Travel Writing represents a sea change in writers’ approaches to the craft. The 1980s were the culmination of a golden age, when writers including Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful, the extraordinary and the unexpected. By the mid 1990s, travel writing seemed to change, as a younger generation of writers appeared in the magazine, making journeys for more complex and often personal reasons. Decca Aitkenhead reported on sex tourism in Thailand, and Wendell Steavenson moved to Iraq as a foreign correspondent. What all these pieces have in common is a sense of engagement with the places they describe, and a belief that whether we are in Birmingham or Belarus, there is always something new to be discovered.
The New Granta Book of Travel
This is a classic collection of the very best of travel writing published in Granta magazine, with contributions from many best-selling authors including - Thomas Keneally, Paul Theroux and Colin Thubron to name just a few.