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Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (Ox Tales)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta'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.

Language: English

Pages: 432

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Profile Books

Release: May 19, 2011

ISBN: 184668496X

ISBN 13: 9781846684968

Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (Ox Tales)

3.8/5 ( ratings)

You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta'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.

Language: English

Pages: 432

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Profile Books

Release: May 19, 2011

ISBN: 184668496X

ISBN 13: 9781846684968

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