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    Travel Books - The Amur River
    kenhaigh
    • Apr 22
    • 3 min

    Travel Books - The Amur River

    In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron decides to travel the length of the Amur River, from its source in the swampy uplands of Mongolia to...
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    Travel Books - Travel Writing Tribe
    kenhaigh
    • Jan 13
    • 3 min

    Travel Books - Travel Writing Tribe

    When I was young, my father had a subscription to National Geographic magazine, and so, like George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life, this...
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    Travel Podcast
    kenhaigh
    • Nov 9, 2021
    • 1 min

    Travel Podcast

    Recently, I was invited to be a guest on the "Library Land Loves" podcast to discuss travel books in general and my new book in...
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    Travel Books - The Compleat Walker
    kenhaigh
    • Oct 13, 2021
    • 3 min

    Travel Books - The Compleat Walker

    Colin Fletcher's The Complete Walker, first published in 1968, went through four editions and became the go-to guide for several...
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    Travel Books - Slow Boats to China
    kenhaigh
    • May 11, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Slow Boats to China

    After twenty years as a peripatetic foreign correspondent covering wars and revolutions for the Observer, Gavin Young finds that he needs...
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    Travel Books - A Hermit on Lake Baikal
    kenhaigh
    • May 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - A Hermit on Lake Baikal

    In 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...
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    Travel Books - Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
    kenhaigh
    • Apr 26, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity

    My 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...
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    Travel Books - Thubron's China
    kenhaigh
    • Apr 20, 2021
    • 3 min

    Travel Books - Thubron's China

    I 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...
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    Travel Books - How the Heather Looks
    kenhaigh
    • Apr 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - How the Heather Looks

    Literary pilgrimages are not that unusual. A whole tourist industry has arisen around visiting the homes and haunts of famous writers: ...
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    Travel Books - Singing for his Supper: Simon Armitage on the Pennine Way
    kenhaigh
    • Apr 6, 2021
    • 3 min

    Travel Books - Singing for his Supper: Simon Armitage on the Pennine Way

    In the summer of 2010, English poet Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. There is nothing too unusual in that, several...
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    Travel Books - Cache Lake Country
    kenhaigh
    • Mar 29, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Cache Lake Country

    When 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...
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    Travel Books - In the Footsteps of Marco Polo
    kenhaigh
    • Mar 22, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - In the Footsteps of Marco Polo

    My 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,...
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    Travel Books - Travels with Steinbeck
    kenhaigh
    • Mar 15, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Travels with Steinbeck

    John 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,...
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    Travel Books - Theroux's Great Railway Bazaar
    kenhaigh
    • Mar 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Travel Books - Theroux's Great Railway Bazaar

    The unexpected success, in 1975, of Paul Theroux’s The Great Railway Bazaar led to a renaissance in travel writing. Theroux’s bestseller...
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    Travel Books - Statler's Japanese Pilgrimage
    kenhaigh
    • Mar 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Statler's Japanese Pilgrimage

    For more than one thousand years, pilgrims have been walking clockwise around the Japanese island of Shikoku seeking the spirit of the...
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    Travel Books - Robert Louis Stevenson, Donkey Drover
    kenhaigh
    • Feb 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Robert Louis Stevenson, Donkey Drover

    Stevenson 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...
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    Travel Books - Dervla Murphy's Bicycle Odyssey
    kenhaigh
    • Feb 16, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Dervla Murphy's Bicycle Odyssey

    I 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...
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    Travel Books - Delisle's Jerusalem
    kenhaigh
    • Feb 13, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Delisle's Jerusalem

    I 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...
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    Travel Books - Basho's Narrow Road
    kenhaigh
    • Feb 12, 2021
    • 2 min

    Travel Books - Basho's Narrow Road

    I love reading travel books–a vague category, I know, and one that some writers hate. They feel it demeans their work to be classified...
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    Travel Books - A Moveable Feast
    kenhaigh
    • Feb 4, 2021
    • 1 min

    Travel Books - A Moveable Feast

    I 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....
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