studies in travel writing

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•   Walking Books - 10 travelogues by dedicated walkers 10 May 2012
• Locating the books with the strongest sense of place (Guardian) 10 May 2012
• Shortlist for the 2012 Ondaatje Prize (Bookseller) 10 May 2012
• Deep Maps: Eamonn Wall reads Tim Robinson's Maps of Aran (Terrain.org):
• Every city should have an atlas - interview with Rebecca Solnit (Terrain.org)
• John Mullan's 10 of the Best: Long Walks - from Basho's haiku to Galgut's Lesotho (Guardian) 4 May 2012
•   'Everyone here dreams of the day we can sing out of our windows in despair'–Ma Jian's 2001 travel book Red Dust 3 May 2012
• '.. men in visors / Cadge lights from men in hairnets' –Edgelands by Matthew Clegg from LongbarrowPress 6 May 2012
• Where does Israel begin and end? +972's Yuval Ben-Ami went on a 22-day trip thru Israel and Palestine to find out (+972 Magazine) 30 Apr 2012
• Keri Smith installation: The Society for Exploratory Research (Køge, Denmark, from 4 May)
•   Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines - 'a work of intense purity and quiet genius, and we’re lucky to have it' (Telegraph) 3 Apr 2012
•   Interview with Kathleen Jamie about her new book, Sightlines (Scotsman) 14 Apr 2012
• Verso's Guide to Political Walking 16 Apr 2012
•   David Winner, Al Dente - 'classy writer' but 'too much is harvested from other people’s books & old films' (Telegraph) 11 Apr 2012
• Book reviews: Susan Griffith on rail travel & a book of macho yet juvenile adventures across Canada (Perceptive Travel)
•   Freedom Rides Again: On the trail of the 1961 campaigners against bus segregation in the United States 14 Apr 2012
• Will Self: Walking is Political (Guardian) 30 Mar 2012
•   Peter Whitfield, Travel: A Literary History - 'wonderfully thorough (if unapologetically Eurocentric)' (Country Life) 21 Mar 2012
• Transcultural Communication & Migrations in the Indian Ocean & the Caribbean (Univ Iowa, 23-24 Mar)
• Brandt Goldstein on the importance of factual rigour in non-fiction (Huffington Post) 21 Mar 2012
•   Gabrielle Walker, Antarctica - 'pleasant, informative read. But as a personal narrative has its weaknesses' (Telegraph) 15 Mar 2012
•   Tim Moore, You Are Awful - 'while his writing can be bloated, his eye for the absurd is keen' (Telegraph) 14 Feb 2012
•   Interview with Peter Whitfield, author of Travel: A Literary History (New York Times) 14 Mar 2012
• Belarus revisited: Fallout from transparent travel writing (Matador Network) 2 Mar 2012
•   Call for Essays: Studies in Travel Writing - special issue on Wales (deadline 1 April): 7 Feb 2012

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Studies in Travel Writing (journal)
Centre for Travel Writing Studies (Nottingham Trent University)

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