OxTravels: Meetings with remarkable travel writers (Ox-tales Book 4)

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. Oxtravels Is An Extraordinary Collection. Thirty-six Travel Writers Have Contributed Stories Of Remarkable Meetings -- Life-changing, Affecting, Amusing By Turn. The Book Is Published In Support Of Oxfam's Work. -- Back Cover. Return Of The Native / Nicholas Shakespeare -- Madam Say Go / Sonia Faleiro -- The Monk's Luggage / Paul Theroux -- Blood Diamonds / Peter Godwin -- Arifin / Ruth Padel -- The Nun's Tale / William Dalrymple -- The Last Man Alive / Oliver Bullough -- The Penguin And The Tree / Lloyd Jones -- Manoli / Victoria Hislop -- Costa / John Julius Norwich -- The Other World / John Gimlette -- Three Tibetans In Ireland / Dervla Murphy -- Rafaelillo / Jason Webster -- The Piece Of String / Shehan Karunatilaka -- The End Of The Bolster / Sara Wheeler -- Encounter In The Amazon / Hugh Thomson -- Love In A Hot Climate / Rory Maclean -- A Confederacy Of Ghosts / Jasper Winn -- The Beggar King / Aminatta Forna -- The Fall And Rise Of A Rome Patient / Ian Thomson -- Cures For Serpents / Chris Stewart -- On The Way To Timbuktu / Michael Jacobs -- Big Yellow Taxi / Tiffany Murray -- The Orchid Lady / Robin Hanbury-tenison -- With Eyes Wide Open / Raja Shehadeh -- Decide To Be Bold / Janine Di Giovanni -- The Man Who Laughed In A Tomb / Anthony Sattin -- A Villain / Horatio Clare -- The Zoo From The Outside / Tom Bullough -- Meetings With Remarkable Poets / Sarah Maguire -- Letting Greene Go / Tim Butcher -- Heat Of Darkness / David Shukman -- The Fourth World / Jan Morris -- The Wrestler / Rory Stewart -- In Mandalay / Colin Thubron -- A Cave On The Black Sea / Patrick Leigh Fermor. Introduced By Michael Palin ; Edited By Mark Ellingham, Peter Florence And Barnaby Rogerson.

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.

Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Godwin, Victoria Hislop, and others. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meetinglife-changing, affecting, amusing by turnand 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 around the world. Two dozen of the most lively, critical and thought-provoking travel writers have been asked to share a cherished meeting, a remembered conversation. The result is Meetings - each will be a story of a remarkable meeting, one which has enriched the writer. Some will be funny. Others profound. This is travel writing with soul. No new maps have been drawn, no rare artefacts procured, no lost cities rediscovered. Nor have fridges or film-crews been dragged around the globe to help cook up a tale. We are looking to get an equally starry cast of writers as the Ox-Tales series and will be looking to c A collection of travel writing, which will act as a focus for the Oxfam Bookfest in 2011. It features stories from twenty-five 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.