16.Travel writing quotes & book reviews > The Ancient Highway https://theancienthighway.com - Journeys from the edge Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:28:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://theancienthighway.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-DSCF4098-1-scaled-2-32x32.jpg 16.Travel writing quotes & book reviews > The Ancient Highway https://theancienthighway.com 32 32 Quotations From Our Favourite Travel Books https://theancienthighway.com/classic-travel-book-quotations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=classic-travel-book-quotations https://theancienthighway.com/classic-travel-book-quotations/#respond Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:02:36 +0000 https://theancienthighway.com/?p=7113 As well as our site’s own book reviews, we have now added a series of quotes from some of our favourite travel books. It is possible to cycle through these quotations quite quickly, by clicking the link at the end of each page. We hope these will entice you to find out more about the books and their authors. They only represent a small sample of those owned, but I have read them from cover to cover, so there must be something about them! Watch this space for further additions.

Orhan Pamuk …. Ma Jian …. Sven Lidqvist …. Antoine de Saint-Exupery …. Stuart Maconie … Patrick Leigh Fermor …. Adrian Hartley …. Marie Colvin …. Rosemary Mahoney …. Dervla Murphy …. Beryl Markham …. Trevor Fishlock …. Jan Morris .... Haruki Murakami.

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The post Book Quote: Adrian Hartley’s Therapy for War Reporters appeared first on The Ancient Highway.]]> Book Quote: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Vintage European Hike https://theancienthighway.com/patrick-leigh-fermor-a-time-of-gifts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=patrick-leigh-fermor-a-time-of-gifts Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:55:42 +0000 https://theancienthighway.com/?page_id=6903 ...

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The post Book Quote: Trevor Fishlock in India appeared first on The Ancient Highway.]]> Book Quote: Sven Lindqvist – An Aboriginal History https://theancienthighway.com/sven-lindqvist-terra-nullius-extract/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sven-lindqvist-terra-nullius-extract Tue, 15 Aug 2023 21:35:13 +0000 https://theancienthighway.com/?page_id=6873 ...

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