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.

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.

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.