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Justin Fox’s recommended reading for travel writing

21st August 2006 | Other items by André S Clements

South African Travel Writing

  • William Dicey -Borderline
  • Adam Levin - Wonder Safaris
  • Don Pinnock - African Journeys
  • Justin Fox - With Both Hands Waving
  • Justin Fox – Just Add Dust
  • David Robins - Due South
  • In Search of the Strange (Struik / New Holland)

General Travel Writing

  • Colin Thubron – In Siberia
  • Jonathan Raban – Passage to Juneau
  • Jonathan Raban – Hunting Mr. Heartbreak
  • Bruce Chatwin – Songlines
  • Paul Theroux – Dark Star Safari
  • Dervla Murphy – South from the Limpopo
  • Norman Lewis – Voices of the Old Sea (?)
  • W. G. Sebald – Austerlitz
  • W.G. Sebald – Rings of Saturn
  • Barry Lopez – Arctic Dreams
  • Redmond O’ Hanlon – Trawler
  • Eric Newby – A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush

New SA Literature (“young”)

  • William Dicey – Borderline
  • Adam Levin – Aidsafari
  • Damon Galgut – The Good Doctor
  • African Compass (New Africa Books)
  • African Road (New Africa Books)
  • Finuala Dowling – What Poets Need
  • Henrietta Rose Innes – The Rock Alphabet
  • Al Lovejoy – Acid Alex

Anthologies:

  • African Compass (New Africa Books)
  • African Road (New Africa Books)

International Travel Writing

Theory:

  • Eric Leed The Mind of the Traveler
  • Alain de Botton The Art of Travel
  • Robyn Davidson The Picador Book of Journeys (introduction)
  • Peter Hulme and Tim Youngs The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
  • Jas Elsner and Joan-Pau Rubies (eds) Voyages and Visions
  • Paul Fussell Abroad

Travel Literature

  • Bruce Chatwin In Patagonia
  • Robert Byron The Road to Oxiana
  • Apsley Cherry-Gerard The Worst Journey in the World
  • Eric Newby The Last Grain Race
  • Wilfrid Thesiger Arabian Sands
  • Jack Kerouac On the Road
  • Travel writing edition of Granta magazine
  • Bruce Chatwin The Songlines
  • Mary Kingsley Travels in West Africa
  • Karen Blixen Out of Africa
  • WG Sebald The Rings of Saturn
  • Bill Bryson Notes from a Small Island
  • Jonathan Raban Passage to Juneau
  • Jonathan Raban HUnting Mr Heartbreak
  • Paul Theroux The Happy Isles of Oceania
  • VS Naipaul The Middle Passage

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