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You have to go back to the 1980s andGranta"s bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin,OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, and others. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting - life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn - and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.This extraordinary collection is published in aid of Oxfam and all royalties from the book will support Oxfam"s work.
Contents: Introduction • Return of the native • Madam Say Go • The Monk"s luggage • Blood Diamonds • Arifin • The Nun"s Tale • The Last Man Alive • The Penguin and The Tree • Manoli • Costa • The Other World • Three Tibetans in Ireland • Rafaelillo • The Piece of String • The End of the Bolster • Encounter in the Amazon • Love in a Hot Climate • A Confederacy of Ghosts • The Beggar King • The Fall and Rise of a Rome Patient • Curse for Serpents • On the Way to Timbuktu • Big Yellow Taxi • The Orchid Lady • With Eyes Wide Open • Decide to be Bold • The Man Who Laughed in a Tomb • A Villain • The Zoo from the Outside • Meetings with Remarkable Poets • Letting Greene Go • Heat of Darkness • The Fourth World • The Wrestler • In Mandalay • A Cave on the Black Sea • Afterword
ISBN - 9781846684968
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Pages : 432
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