One People is a comic novel but Cousins Cove is a real village, and the stories Guy Kennaway tells were gathered during his first ten years as an idle British expat. We spoke about Jamaican culture, the legacy of slavery, and why he’s a passionate advocate for Patwa, the national language.
James Salter: with biographer Jeffrey Meyers
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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