studies in travel writing

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• Bishwanath Ghosh, Chai, Chai - explores towns that most Indian rail passengers stop at but never get off (The Hindu): 7 Feb 2010
• 'Talking Travel: Tourism and Haiti’s recovery' - podcast (PRI's The World) 26 Jan 2010
• Amy Wilentz, A Tale of Two Hotels in Haiti (Truth.Travel) 16 Jan 2010
• Georges Anglade, who died in the Haiti earthquake, was attending the Etonnants Voyageurs travel writing festival 25 Jan 2010
• A Year in Provence, 20 Years On (Guardian) 11 Jan 2010
• '10 great contemporary reads that are signposts for a country's soul' (Stuff.co.nz) 9 Jan 2010
• 'Favourite travel books from my 2009 reviewing year' (Not a Ballerina blog) 7 Jan 2010
• Shusaku Endo's historical novel Silence (1966) reassessed as travel writing (Joel Carillet on Gather) 3 Jan 2010
•   Dilip D'Sousa interviewed about his new book, Roadrunner: An Indian Quest in America (The Hindu) 4 Jan 2010
• Interview With Loreena McKennitt: Musical Travel Writing (World Hum) 16 Dec 2009
•   Rory MacLean's travel book of the year: William Dalrymple's Nine Lives (Guardian) 16 Dec 2009
• Best travel books of 2009 (Sunday Times) 6 Dec 2009
•   Jan Morris, Contact! - 'an alternately effervescent, unsettling and compelling read' (Financial Times) 7 Dec 2009
•   An Anthology of Early British Motorcycling Literature - reviewed (International Journal of Motorcycle Studies)
• Chuck Thompson, To Hellholes and Back - 'well-written, funny, and fast-paced' (Jaunted) 5 Dec 2009
• Somerset Maugham, Skeptical Romancer (ed. Pico Iyer) - 'fascinating vignettes' (Washington Times) 7 Dec 2009
•   New issue of Studies in Travel Writing: contemporary travel writing in French (Bouvier, Maspero, Maillart & others)
• Longitude's 10 best travel books of 2009
• Birmingham from the number eleven bus
• 150 years of women's travel accounts available in a new digital archive at Harvard (Harvard Gazette) 3 Dec 2009
•   Travel Books of the Year: A selection of some of the more intriguing travel narratives published during 2009
• Geoffrey Moorhouse obituary (Independent) 28 Nov 2009
•   Dalrymple - 'Impossible not to be profoundly moved by the stories of those he chronicles' (Brisbane Courier-Mail) 27 Nov 2009
•   Gillian Kendall, Something to Declare: Good Lesbian Travel Writing - 'engaging collection' (Perceptive Travel Blog) 23 Nov 2009
•   William Least Heat-Moon revisits his Blue Highways (w/ photos) (cnn.com) 18 Nov 2009

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