The novelist and island writer Lawrence Durrell believed that everyone has a personal landscape, a landscape that resonates with them on some deep tuning fork level, where you feel most at home, and where you think your deepest thoughts.
I’ve spent more than 20 years exploring such places as a traveler, and as a writer of magazine features and books.
I’m going to talk to the people who write those books and publish those books. Experts on different geographical and cultural regions, and on long-dead writers whose books have entered the canon of travel classics.
I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoy talking to them.
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
Joseph Roth: The collapse of the civilized world
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