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• Noor-Saro-Wiwa on Nigeria, Sara Wheeler on Antarctica (Guardian Books podcast) 13 Jan 2012
• Colin Thubron chooses five of the best books on Afghanistan (Telegraph) 12 Jan 2012
•   Travel books of the year - some new publications that caught my eye during 2011 31 Dec 2011
• Charles Nicholl finds biography taking him down more untrodden paths than the 'played-out travel book' (Guardian) 30 Dec 2011
• Obituary of Hugh Carless, the companion immortalized by Eric Newby in A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Telegraph) 21 Dec 2011
• The final, unfinished, volume of Patrick Leigh Fermor's trilogy to be published in 2013 (Guardian) 20 Dec 2012
• Reading Travel: New and Old Books We Loved This Year (World Hum) 20 Dec 2011
•   Proposals invited for essays on non-fiction travel narratives of journeys made by motorbike (deadline: 10 Feb) 20 Dec 2012
• Top travel literature titles of 2011 (Lonely Planet) 17 Dec 2011
• Tom Adair with his travel book highlights of the year (Scotsman) 10 Dec 2011
• Rory MacLean, Falling for Icarus - already a classic, reissued with new introduction by Robert Macfarlane (Guardian) 6 Dec 2011
•   Experimental travel writing: ten travel books that push the boundaries 2 Dec 2011
• The New Granta Book of Travel - an 'inspiring anthology celebrating the genre's literary aspirations' (Independent) 20 Nov 2011
• Travel: Peaks and pavements - a survey of the year in travel writing (Independent) 25 Nov 2011
• Ben Frank, The Scattered Tribe - reclaiming the tradition of Jewish travel books (Jewish Tribune) 14 Nov 2011
• Five books for the Perceptive Traveler (USA Today) 12 Nov 2011
• Studies in Travel Writing now has a Facebook page
• Women's Travel Writing - eleven personal recommendations (Denver Public Library) 9 Nov 2011
•   Studies in Travel Writing: Special Issue on Travel Writing and Cuba, including interview with Richard Fleming
• Interview with Michael Jacobs about his book Andes (Foreign Policy in Focus) 2 Nov 2011
• Owen Hatherley trawls through Aberdeen 21 Oct 2011
•   Enthusing about Sean Borodale's extraordinary London poem, Notes for an Atlas 27 Oct 2011
• Four authors walk through Hackney (podcast) 25 Jan 2011
• Rebecca Solnit, A Book of Migrations (reissued): 'Brilliant meditations on metaphor, exile & nomadism' (Guardian) 4 Oct 2011
• The Driver by Kate Grace Thomas: a Lonely Planet guidebook writer in Libya on filing reports from the Arab Spring 1 Oct 2011

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

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