Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino by Samuel Butler

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In Alps and Sanctuary Samuel Butler walks various alpine passes, visits many small towns and villages, comments on art and architecture, and...

A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

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A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White is a superb book. First published in 1861, it was one of the first travel books designed for a new ki...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

A Journey to Crete, Constantinople, Naples and Florence - Three Months Abroad by Anna Vivanti

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A Journey to Crete, Constantinople, Naples and Florence - Three Months Abroad by Anna Vivanti was published, originally for private circulat...
Monday, October 26, 2020

The Shores of the Adriatic – The Austrian Side – The Künstenland, Istria, and Dalmatia by F Hamilton Jackson 1908

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  Interesting to read this account of a journey – not the author’s first to the area – while travelling through part of it. The writing make...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

The Naples Riviera by Herbert M Vaughan

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The Naples Riviera by Herbert M Vaughan is a travel book published in 1908. I read it recently during a trip to Naples, itself. When using o...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux

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When, some thirty years later, Paul Theroux repeated the journey that he had described in The Great Railway Bazaar, he declared travel writi...
Saturday, March 10, 2012

From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth

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Ostensibly From Heaven Lake is a travel book. The description is both apt and limiting. It is worth musing on the idea that travel may be me...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

30 Days In Sydney by Peter Carey

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Peter Carey’s 30 Days In Sydney claims to present a wildly distorted account of a writer’s return to a city he knows well. After ten years i...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

Arabia by Jonathan Raban

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At the end of the seventies Jonathan Raban wandered across the Middle East. Arabia was the book he wrote after impressionistic visits to Bah...
Monday, August 2, 2010

Coasting by Jonathan Raban

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Jonathan Raban’s Coasting is a book that defies labels. It’s not a novel. It might be a travel book. It might also be an autobiography, or e...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Serpent In Paradise by Dea Birkett

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Towards the end of Serpent In Paradise Dea Birkett offers a personal confession. “We all hold a place in our hearts – a perfect place – whic...
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Sir Phoebus’s Ma by Zoë Teale

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Zoë Teale’s Sir Phoebus’s Ma is more of a travelogue than a novel. It’s a series of impressionistic reflections, experienced during a year i...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

New York Days, New York Nights by Stephen Brook

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I have just done another tour of New York. It’s a city whose streets I have walked, whose life I have encountered, whose people I have known...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Istanbul: Memories And The City by Orhan Pamuk

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Near the opening of Istanbul: Memories And The City, Orhan Pamuk suggests that “at least once in a lifetime, self-reflection leads us to an ...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

A Walk Up Fifth Avenue by Bernard Levin

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Bernard Levin begins A Walk Up Fifth Avenue with three quotations from descriptions of New York City. These date from 1916, 1929 and 1949 an...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Short story: Assessors

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From: 36dale42@283East.net To: assessors@central.net Subject: A p p lication for re-assessment I hereby humbly p resent my case and ho p e, ...