Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers
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Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers
You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, and others. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting – life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn – and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.
3.8 out of 5 based on 2 reviews
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Omniscore:
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| Classification |
Non-Fiction |
| Genre |
Travel |
| Format |
Paperback |
| Pages |
480 |
| RRP |
£9.99 |
| Date of Publication |
May 2011 |
| ISBN |
978-1846684968 |
| Publisher |
Profile Books |
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You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, and others. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting – life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn – and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.
Read an extract from the book on the Guardian website
Reviews
The Observer
Ruaridh Nicoll
"Sometimes travel writing is so good it can overcome such malaise and Ox Travels is an example. For this book proves that the form can still glow with life. Here is the heart of it, the ability of great travel writers to find magic in the most trying of trips – Michael Jacobs, say, enthusing about the mystery of an Air Mali flight to Timbuktu, despite there being several Japanese tourists on board, or Jasper Winn riding a horse along the rubbish-strewn verges of a Mexican superhighway. But the trick the editors have played is to ask the contributors to describe "encounters"."
05/06/2011
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The Independent on Sunday
Sarah Barrell
"At its best, reading Ox Travels is like landing somewhere you haven't been for a while and remembering how much you love the place ... Often these tales are not pretty, but they do feel true."
22/05/2011
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