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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!
Mexico : A nonfiction novella
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)
