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Depois da II Grande Guerra Mundial, quando todos pensavam definitivamente enterrada a era das grandes viagens e explorações pelo mundo, e com ela a literatura de viagens, a Granta e Bill Bufford, demonstraram que este género literário ainda não tinha morrido e tinha espaço para se reinventar. Já não se tratavam agora das grandes epopeias de aventura e descoberta, procurando civilizações perdidas (como em "A Estrada para Oxiana" de Robert Byron ou "Um Gentleman na Ásia" de Somerset Maugham) ou te...
Well, my second Granta experience was also successful.I don't really know what I was expecting when I ordered a back issue of a literary journal from the 80s focusing on travel writing. James Fenton and Redmond O'Hanlon's stories were great. I only realized afterwards that the James in Redmond's stories was Fenton. The way Fenton wrote, and how Redmond portrayed him were quite different.All of the stories were great really. Colin Thubron being lost in Vietnam in the middle of the night. Martha G...