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Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in search of a genre

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Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in search of a genre

SKU: 9781787384705 Category: Product ID: 307276

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Title: Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in search of a genre
Author: HANNIGAN TIM
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 01/11/2021
Imprint: HURST PUBLISHERS
Price: $40.00
Publishing status: Active

Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing's queasy colonial connections?

Travelling from Monaco to Eton, from wintry Scotland to sun-scorched Greek hillsides, Hannigan swills beer with the indomitable Dervla Murphy, sips tea with the doyen of British explorers, delves into the diaries of Wilfred Thesiger and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and gains unexpected insights from Colin Thubron, Samanth Subramanian, Kapka Kassabova, William Dalrymple and many others. But along the way he realises how much is at stake: can his own love of travel writing survive this journey?

'The Travel Writing Tribe' tackles head on the fierce critical debates usually confined to strictly academic discussions of the genre. This highly original book compels readers and travellers of all kinds to think about travel writing in new ways.

ISBN: 9781787384705
Dimension: 216mm X 138mm

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Dimensions 216 × 138 mm