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- Lola Rodriguez de Tio: An inspirational traveller, exile and revolutionary for International Women’s Day and beyond ….. 9 Mar 2013
- A Jamaican Odyssey: Nancy Prince’s Travels to Jamaica in 1840 8 Jan 2013
- Amit Chaudhuri, Calcutta - 'succeeds brilliantly in making sense of a place few of us can know' (Guardian) 24 Feb 2013
- DBC Pierre walks the Avenida de los Insurgentes in Mexico City (Guardian) 8 Feb 2013
The Art of Walking (Lyon, 10-12 Oct 2013) – Call for Papers (deadline: 15 Apr) 10 Mar 2013
- Travel writing, fact and fiction (BBC news magazine) 23 Nov 2012
Travel books of the year – twelve that caught my eye in 2012 27 Dec 2012
- Lynsey Hanley, Why It's Good to Walk (Guardian) 27 Dec 2012
- Llegan las cartas del nómada dorado : Bruce Chatwin (El Pais) 8 Dec 2012
- Books of the Year 2012: Travel and place (Independent) 8 Dec 2012
- Engaging new blog on nineteenth-century women travellers by Bev Duguid 26 Oct 2012
- 'The earliest known fiction about travelling to outer space, alien life-forms and interplanetary warfare.'
- Some Strange Elsewheres: Travel Poetry from the Beats On (University of Bedfordshire, 4 July 2013)
- Ruth Behar, Traveling Heavy: A Memoir in between Journeys - forthcoming from Duke University Press
- Patrick Leigh Fermor 'justly commemorated in this magnificent biography' - Jan Morris on Artemis Cooper (Telegraph) 6 Nov 2012
- 'Orwell misses a deep sense of what the lives of those Others are like when there are no white men for them to look at' 29 Oct 2012
- A Review Of The Best American Travel Writing 2012 30 Oct 2012
- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza - The Whiteness of Airports (2008) 13 May 2008
- Daniel Carey to discuss the first critical edition of Hakluyt's Voyages in preparation (14 vols) (Oxford, Mon 5 Nov) 5 Oct 2012
John Zilcosky's Kafka's Travels is a rich, rewarding read. 23 Oct 2012
- Visiting Patrick Leigh Fermor's old house in the Peloponnese - 2 28 Sep 2012
- Visiting Patrick Leigh Fermor's old house in the Peloponnese - 1 27 Sep 2012
- 'Even after a lifetime of travelling, she is thrilled by the world rather than weary of it'–interview with Jan Morris 29 Sep 2012
New Eyes - Marcel Proust, travel writer 27 Sep 2012
- Natives on the Boat - Teju Cole on meeting V S Naipaul (New Yorker) 11 Sep 2012
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