Dervla Murphy has been described as a ‘travel legend’ and ‘the first lady of Irish cycling’. For five decades she’s travelled the world in a series of truly remarkable journeys, mostly alone and mostly on foot. I had the great fortune to speak with her a week after her 90th birthday. We talked about the loss of traditional cultures, travel in the pre-internet age, and the general state of the world.
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Norman Lewis: The 20th century’s greatest travel writer
Steve Kilbey: writing, lyrics & songs about place
Gordon Peake: Insider stories from the world of foreign aid
Edith Durham: The traveler who became Albania’s mountain queen
David Thompson and the mapping of Canada
Rebecca Lowe: Cycling through the Middle East’s fractured mosaic
Martha Gellhorn: with biographer Caroline Moorehead
Guy Kennaway: Life in a Jamaican village
Sophie Haydock: Egon Schiele and fin de siècle Vienna
Carole Angier: The strange world of W.G. Sebald
David Eimer: Cultural survival in China’s borderlands
Nigel Barley: The Innocent Anthropologist
Jeremy Seal: Modern Turkey and the 1960 coup
John Gimlette: Madagascar, and ‘walking the dead’
Sara Wheeler: Russia, Antarctica and how we shape stories
Jerry Kobalenko: Searching for ghosts on Ellesmere Island
Lawrence Millman: the Arctic, technology and saving stories
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