Nigel Barley wrote one of the funniest travel books I've ever read, and it nearly got him kicked out of his academic discipline. We spoke about the grim reality of fieldwork, his odd attraction for monkeys, and why fiction tells us more than anthropology about what it means to be human.
Eastern Europe with Jacob Mikanowski
Berlin with Barney White-Spunner
Joseph Roth: The collapse of the civilized world
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
Dervla Murphy: Reflections on a lifetime of travel
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
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