At 27, Robyn Davidson trekked through the Australian outback with four camels and a dog. In her long-awaited memoir we come closer to knowing why she made this journey.
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Mayat embodied principled, faith-based, socially committed, inspired leadership.
The solo journey of a queer, black woman across the continent makes fascinating reading.
She reveals a range of African experiences: from traders to martial arts champions, visa overstayers to heart surgeons.
In the 19th century, several English women wrote accounts of their world travels. While considered by some as second-rate travellers, they were just as restless as their male contemporaries.
After visiting 72 countries as a travel writer, COVID forced Ben Stubbs to reassess the genre in an age of climate change and mass tourism. It’s time, he says, for a new kind of travel writing.
On house arrest, Xavier de Maistre took a journey around his room where he discovered there was much to wonder at.
In 1790, Xavier de Maistre was imprisoned in his house for six weeks, and he took to travel writing about his bedroom. Is this the new coronavirus travel writing?
Travel and philosophy have enjoyed a quiet love affair for centuries.
Globalism has made it easier than ever to visit faraway places – and easier to never really leave home while you’re there.
An adventurer who gave us the first account by an Englishman of early colonial Brazil.
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Research Associate, Humanities Research Centre (and African Literature Department, University of the Witwatersrand), University of York
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Senior Lecturer, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Griffith University
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Research Professor, UFS History Department, University of the Free State
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Regents' Professor of English, Georgia State University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, author of The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad (2020), Durham University
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Profesora y Coordinadora de las Especialidades de Lengua Extranjera y Lengua y Literatura Española en el Máster Universitario de Profesorado de la Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU), Universidad Internacional de Valencia
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Novelist; lecturer and PhD candidate in Creative Writing, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer in Portuguese Studies, University of Cambridge
