studies in travel writing

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• Joe Moran visits 'another country: the terra nullius underneath our elevated motorways.' 15 Aug 2010
•   Paul Bowles, Travels - 'underlying all the superficial colour is a profoundly reflective quality' (Independent) 23 Jul 2010
•   Studies in Travel Writing latest issue: essays on Bayard Taylor, May French Sheldon, Sarah Bernhardt & others
•   Ian Thomson on his visit to an elderly white planter in Jamaica (Guardian) 17 Jul 2010
• Mark Twain Award 2011 for travel writing about Heidelberg (€5000 prize; deadline 15 Dec 2010)
•   Ian Thomson's The Dead Yard wins Dolman Travel Book of the Year (The Bookseller) 7 Jul 2010
• Dervla Murphy interview: Around the world in 80 years (Daily Telegraph) 1 Jul 2010
• Fare dodgers unite (Free Public Transport)
•   Norman Douglas, Old Calabria (reissued) - erudite but unlovable (A Traveler's Library):
•   "Travellin' woman": Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on Paule Marshall's literary coming of age (Caribbean Review of Books)
• Worldhum unveils The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time. 15 Jun 2010
•   William Dalrymple shares his impressions of modern India (The Herald) 14 Jun 2010
•   Call for essays on travel in Anatolia, the Ottoman Empire and Turkey (Studies in Travel Writing, deadline 1 Sept) 10 Jun 2010
• Pilgrimages: 13 travel blogs by African writers offering perspectives on the World Cup from 13 cities
• Sara Wheeler on Freya Stark (The Times) 7 May 2010
• Tom Miller, author of Trading with the Enemy, revisits Havana (GlobalPost) 7 Jun 2010
• Determining Form: Creative Non-Fiction Journeys (University of Glasgow, 11-12 June) with Kapka Kassabova & others
• Andrew Greig, At the Loch of the Green Corrie - 'Over & over, makes place into an event in its own right' (Guardian) 10 Apr 2010
• Michael Jacobs, Andes - 'as assured as any of the prime travel classics' (Guardian) 29 May 2010
• Shortlist for the Dolman Travel Book of the Year (The Bookseller) 28 May 2010
• Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room: 'I doubt any book in 2010 will contain more memorable evocations of place' (Guardian) 22 May 2010
• Anthony Sattin, A Winter on the Nile - Florence Nightingale & Gustave Flaubert, 'so nicely oblivious of each other' (Literary Review)
• The Rebel Ramble is an urban ramble through the streets of South London. 21 May 2010
• Andrzej Stasiuk’s Fado in discussion at the European Book Club in NYC (Sat 16 May 2pm)
• Travel Book Reviews - Carl Hoffman, Sven Hedin, Best Women's Travel Writing 2010 (Perceptive Travel)

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Centre for Travel Writing Studies (Nottingham Trent University)