kenhaighApr 223 minTravel Books - The Amur RiverIn his eightieth year, Colin Thubron decides to travel the length of the Amur River, from its source in the swampy uplands of Mongolia to...
kenhaighJan 133 minTravel Books - Travel Writing TribeWhen I was young, my father had a subscription to National Geographic magazine, and so, like George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life, this...
kenhaighNov 9, 20211 minTravel PodcastRecently, I was invited to be a guest on the "Library Land Loves" podcast to discuss travel books in general and my new book in...
kenhaighOct 13, 20213 minTravel Books - The Compleat WalkerColin Fletcher's The Complete Walker, first published in 1968, went through four editions and became the go-to guide for several...
kenhaighMay 11, 20212 minTravel Books - Slow Boats to ChinaAfter twenty years as a peripatetic foreign correspondent covering wars and revolutions for the Observer, Gavin Young finds that he needs...
kenhaighMay 4, 20212 minTravel Books - A Hermit on Lake BaikalIn The Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tesson parks himself in a small ranger’s cabin on the shores of Lake Baikal to explore what it...
kenhaighApr 26, 20212 minTravel Books - Delhi: Adventures in a MegacityMy memories of Delhi are somewhat vague. I remember snake charmers at the Red Fort and a ordering a hamburger at a Wimpy’s restaurant in...
kenhaighApr 20, 20213 minTravel Books - Thubron's ChinaI recently decided to re-read one of my favorite books about China, Colin Thubron’s Behind the Wall. As I cracked open the cover and saw...
kenhaighApr 12, 20212 minTravel Books - How the Heather LooksLiterary pilgrimages are not that unusual. A whole tourist industry has arisen around visiting the homes and haunts of famous writers: ...
kenhaighApr 6, 20213 minTravel Books - Singing for his Supper: Simon Armitage on the Pennine WayIn the summer of 2010, English poet Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. There is nothing too unusual in that, several...
kenhaighMar 29, 20212 minTravel Books - Cache Lake CountryWhen I was a boy of perhaps 10 or 12 years old, I read a book that made a great impression on me. It was the story of a man who lived in...
kenhaighMar 22, 20212 minTravel Books - In the Footsteps of Marco PoloMy bookshelf at home is weighted down with the books of William Dalrymple. Clearly, I’m a fan. But I had never read his first book,...
kenhaighMar 15, 20212 minTravel Books - Travels with SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley has long been on my “to read” list. The other day I had to make a long car journey and thought,...
kenhaighMar 8, 20213 minTravel Books - Theroux's Great Railway BazaarThe unexpected success, in 1975, of Paul Theroux’s The Great Railway Bazaar led to a renaissance in travel writing. Theroux’s bestseller...
kenhaighMar 2, 20212 minTravel Books - Statler's Japanese PilgrimageFor more than one thousand years, pilgrims have been walking clockwise around the Japanese island of Shikoku seeking the spirit of the...
kenhaighFeb 24, 20212 minTravel Books - Robert Louis Stevenson, Donkey DroverStevenson is best remembered as a novelist—as the author of Treasure Island or The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But it was...
kenhaighFeb 16, 20212 minTravel Books - Dervla Murphy's Bicycle OdysseyI was speaking with an old friend recently, and he told me of his plan to ride the full length of Africa—from Cairo to Cape Town—on his...
kenhaighFeb 13, 20212 minTravel Books - Delisle's JerusalemI am a big fan of the work of Guy Delisle. Delisle is a graphic artist from Quebec, and he has written four travel memoirs in comic book...
kenhaighFeb 12, 20212 minTravel Books - Basho's Narrow RoadI love reading travel books–a vague category, I know, and one that some writers hate. They feel it demeans their work to be classified...
kenhaighFeb 4, 20211 minTravel Books - A Moveable FeastI first read A Moveable Feast in Grade 13 English class. We had one period each week where we were required to do self-directed reading....