Sara Wheeler is the author of 10 books, including Mud and Stars. We spoke about her travels in Russia, living as writer-in-residence on an Antarctic research base, and the reciprocal relationship between story and memory.
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Andrew Finkel: Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Empire
The Wakhan Corridor with Bill Colegrave
Justin Marozzi: Tamerlane and Samarkand
Alex Kerr: Finding hidden Japan
Barnaby Rogerson: The making of the Middle East
Sarah Anderson: Founding The Travel Bookshop
Louisa Waugh: Life on the edge of Mongolia
Bruce Chatwin: with editor and friend Susannah Clapp
Laura Trethewey: Mapping our unknown oceans
Tim Cocks: Life in Africa’s biggest megacity
Jeremy Bassetti: Pilgrims on Bolivia’s Hill of Skulls
The Pyrenees: Matthew Carr on Europe’s savage frontier
Simon Winchester: Outposts at the edge of the world
Tom Parfitt: Walking the High Caucasus
Richard Grant: Travels With American Nomads
Anthony Sattin: How nomads shaped settled civilization
The Sahara with Eamonn Gearon
Eastern Europe with Jacob Mikanowski
Berlin with Barney White-Spunner
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