Tag: Travel writing
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Skyfaring – A Journey with a Pilot, by Mark Vanhoenacker
Paperback, Vintage, £8.99, out now The cover of this book makes me want to jump on a plane and fly off somewhere. As someone who likes flying, despite serious concerns about climate change, I thought I might like this book. I was wrong. I love it. If I’m looking for escape in a book, I’m…
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Patrick Leigh Fermor – An Adventure: Artemis Cooper
Paperback now available Like any worthwhile biographical subject, the travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor was a bundle of contradictions. A garrulous, worldly adventurer who secluded himself in French monasteries; an urbane clubman who yearned for the Greek countryside; and a bon vivant and seducer who built his life around one loyal woman. The excitable young…