Travel writing with the power to transport will always endure: From Patrick Leigh Fermor to Robert Macfarlane
9 years ago

Travel writing with the power to transport will always endure: From Patrick Leigh Fermor to Robert Macfarlane

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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. From Homer to Horatio Clare – recipient of the most recent Dolman Travel Book of the Year award for his study of contemporary life on the world’s container ships – it might convey topics as diverse as political, social, religious, or economic commentary, art, exploration, food or music. Then there is travel fiction – the imagination of Jonathan Swift, Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Douglas Adams, Jack Kerouac, and many would argue, Patrick Leigh Fermor, that splices the known world with fantasy, taking the reader on a journey that is at once familiar and foreign. Whether experiencing Danish design heritage through the eyes of Sir Terence Conran, or the history of Japan’s bullet trains via Stephen Bayley’s delightful and insightful prose, our travel writing, I hope, has transported you to places as yet unvisited, or helped experience the familiar through alternative or veteran eyes.

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Rethinking overtourism: Join our free travel event for holiday tips to help you dodge the crowds
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Rethinking overtourism: Join our free travel event for holiday tips to help you dodge the crowds

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The best travel new year’s resolutions
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The best travel new year’s resolutions

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Simon Calder and the Independent’s travel team answer reader questions in live virtual event
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Simon Calder and the Independent’s travel team answer reader questions in live virtual event

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Adults are eager to explore the world alone over the next three years
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Adults are eager to explore the world alone over the next three years

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Ask The Independent’s travel team your holiday questions in our exclusive event
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Ask The Independent’s travel team your holiday questions in our exclusive event

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How Lonely Planet is planning for the future of travel
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How Lonely Planet is planning for the future of travel

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The great escape: How writing a travel feature convinced me to leave the city for the seaside
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The great escape: How writing a travel feature convinced me to leave the city for the seaside

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Expert Simon Calder examines what travel will look like in 2022 during live event

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Listen to today’s episode of Simon Calder’s travel podcast: World Tourism Day, Perth flights scrapped and more
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Why The Independent is putting sustainability front and centre in our travel coverage
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Why The Independent is putting sustainability front and centre in our travel coverage

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What I’ve learnt in three years as travel editor of The Independent
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What I’ve learnt in three years as travel editor of The Independent

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Travel industry despair: ‘My agency has sent two people abroad this year’
3 years, 8 months ago

Travel industry despair: ‘My agency has sent two people abroad this year’

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Simon Calder’s ‘Ask me Anything’: the Independent’s Travel Correspondent will answer your questions live
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Simon Calder’s ‘Ask me Anything’: the Independent’s Travel Correspondent will answer your questions live

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Simon Calder’s Travel Week Newsletter: Sign up for updates and holiday tips in a fast-changing world
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Simon Calder’s Travel Week Newsletter: Sign up for updates and holiday tips in a fast-changing world

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‘Government’s plan: to stop people being able to travel,’ says top Tory
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‘Government’s plan: to stop people being able to travel,’ says top Tory

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Travel industry fury at ‘coordinated campaign’ to undermine holidays
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Travel industry fury at ‘coordinated campaign’ to undermine holidays

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What have travel writers been doing when they’re not travelling?
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What have travel writers been doing when they’re not travelling?

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Where The Independent travel desk is going this summer
4 years ago

Where The Independent travel desk is going this summer

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Travel influencers encouraged to pay for their own holidays
4 years, 7 months ago

Travel influencers encouraged to pay for their own holidays

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Enjoy the highs and lows of magnificent journeys without leaving the comfort of your armchair
4 years, 11 months ago

Enjoy the highs and lows of magnificent journeys without leaving the comfort of your armchair

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Apart from a day trip to Boulogne with my mum when I was seven, I didn’t go abroad until I turned 18. The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin "I have a vision of the Songlines stretching across the continents and ages; that wherever men have trodden they have left a trail of song; and that these trails must reach back, in …

Environmental damage caused by travel and tourism to be assessed by MPs
5 years, 8 months ago

Environmental damage caused by travel and tourism to be assessed by MPs

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Solo travel is the latest trend for British holidaymakers
6 years, 5 months ago

Solo travel is the latest trend for British holidaymakers

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Surprising starts to some of Britain's most beautiful train journeys
6 years, 11 months ago

Surprising starts to some of Britain's most beautiful train journeys

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Does travel really broaden the mind?
8 years, 8 months ago

Does travel really broaden the mind?

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Why ​2016 is the year of the New Bricolage Traveller with a thirst for global experiences
8 years, 11 months ago

Why ​2016 is the year of the New Bricolage Traveller with a thirst for global experiences

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15 funniest travel books ever written (in English)
10 years, 6 months ago

15 funniest travel books ever written (in English)

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My life in travel: Rebecca Ferguson
11 years ago

My life in travel: Rebecca Ferguson

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My life in travel: Jeff Stelling
11 years, 4 months ago

My life in travel: Jeff Stelling

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The 50 best travel websites
11 years, 9 months ago

The 50 best travel websites

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My life in travel: Richard Branson
11 years, 11 months ago

My life in travel: Richard Branson

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My life in travel: Anthony Horowitz
12 years ago

My life in travel: Anthony Horowitz

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My life in travel: Alastair Stewart, broadcast journalist
13 years, 7 months ago

My life in travel: Alastair Stewart, broadcast journalist

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This is the weekend for... Staying at home
14 years, 8 months ago

This is the weekend for... Staying at home

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My Life In Travel: Keith Allen, actor and comedian
16 years, 11 months ago

My Life In Travel: Keith Allen, actor and comedian

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The best of 2004: travel books reviewed
20 years, 3 months ago

The best of 2004: travel books reviewed

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