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February 23, 2015

Book Review: Peaks on the Horizon

February 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A gripping new book takes readers inside the fabled - and troubled - land of Tibet

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February 23, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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charlie carroll, February 2015, open letters weekly 2015, peaks on the horizon, tibet, travel writing
July 22, 2014

Book Review: The Emperor Far Away

July 22, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A veteran reporter journeys deep into the heart of modern China and brings back predictably exotic stories

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July 22, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
China, david eimer, July 2014, open letters weekly, the emperor far away, travel writing
January 17, 2014

Book Review: Danubia

January 17, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The sprawling, disjointed history of the Habsburg Empire forms the backdrop for Simon Winder's latest combination of history lesson and personal essay.

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January 17, 2014/ Steve Donoghue/
danubia, habsburg empire, history, January 2014, open letters weekly, simon winder, travel writing
February 03, 2013

Classics Reissued: West with the Night

February 03, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

The great travel-adventure classic gets a pretty new reprint

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February 03, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
adventure writing, beryl markham, February 2013, sara wheeler, travel writing, west with the night
January 27, 2013

Book Review: Antarctica

January 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

Earth's frozen, forbidding continent is the subject of Gabrielle Walker's latest book

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January 27, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
antarctica, gabrielle walker, January 2013, nature writing, travel writing
January 19, 2013

Book Review: Access All Areas

January 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A generous anthology collects the work of one of the greatest travel-writers of our day

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January 19, 2013/ Steve Donoghue/
access all areas, January 2013, sara wheeler, travel writing
November 26, 2012

Now in Paperback: Alibis

November 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The latest volume of travel-writing from novelist and memoirist Andre Aciman takes readers from Paris to Rome to Venice to New York and back

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November 26, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
alibis, andre aciman, essays on elsewhere, Nonfiction, November 2012, travel writing
October 28, 2012

Book Review: Among the Islands

October 28, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

At the beginning of his career, the great scientist-explorer Tim Flannery literally sailed to the ends of the earth and back - here he sits down to tell some of those stories

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October 28, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
adventures in the pacific, among the islands, October 2012, pacific ocean, tim flannery, travel writing
October 25, 2012

Book Review: The Lion Sleeps Tonight

October 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

The celebrated South African author of "My Traitor's Heart" publishes a collection of his rabble-rousing, fortifying New Journalism pieces

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October 25, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
africa, October 2012, political writing, rian malan, stories of africa, the lion sleeps tonight, travel writing
April 15, 2012

Book Review: Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down

April 15, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

A talented young novelist writes a nonfiction account of living and working in Paris!

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April 15, 2012/ Steve Donoghue/
April 2012, I love you but you're bringing me down, Paris, rosecrans baldwin, travel, travel writing
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