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Category: 11.Trains, Boats and Planes
Where the transportation is key to the tale – It just wouldn’t be a real travel story otherwise!
Book Quote: Rosemary Mahoney Sails Solo Down the Nile
Book Quote: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Vintage European Hike
Book Quote: Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul Memoir
Book Quote: Ma Jian’s China Odyssey
Laurie Lee’s 1930s Walk of a Lifetime
My Beating Heart – An Orkney Travel Tale
EXTRACT: Orkney Island, Scotland …..The shoreline was now strewn with rubbish; not just newspapers and carrier bags, but rusting tin drums and petrol containers. I walked for a further mile along this stretch, hoping that this threat to Orkney’s natural beauty would soon recede. In the distance I could see a farmhouse at the top of some fields. I stopped by a burnt out car and viewed the building through my binoculars….
Book Review: Imperium (Ryszard Kapuscinski)
My Pretty Peggy Sue
From School Dark Room to International Courier – Lessons in Contraband
Extract: During the 1970s I attended a Lancashire secondary school. Perhaps, one of the more unusual ‘O’ Level options I chose was Art. I say, unusual, because I lacked dexterity, and couldn’t tell the difference between a Picasso and a Beano. However, several months into my Art studies, an off-shoot of the discipline presented itself, which certainly opened up an interesting divergence – photography.
So, whilst most of the other students diligently applied themselves in the Art classroom, a two-minute walk away, around the back of the school stage, over a period of months, I set to work with two long standing friends in the dark room to see how we could best exploit those unsupervised alternative curriculum hours.