Category: Travel Literature

It’s looking like 2021 will be another year when our yearnings for foreign shores will have to be assuaged with some vicarious travel. For me that’ll take the form of some fascinating new travel writing, some novels atmospherically set abroad, and some old favourites. I might re-watch (and re-read) Long Way Round, Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman’s documentary series (and its accompanying book) of their motorbike trip from London to New York via Europe, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, and finally …