travel writing
One of my favourite things to do is travel. As a child, I read pretty much any and every travel book I could lay my hands on, had a bucket list of places I was desperate to visit and spent hours whiling away the time, nose in tome, imagining myself walking with the … Continue readings
Tags : armchair travel, England travel guides, English travel writing, Kevin Sine, Matador, Matador Travel, Mersey Estuary, The Mersey Estuary A Travel Guide, travel writing, Troubador
Rough Magic is the kind of book I devoured as a child, a rip-roaring, triumph-against-adversity adventure, set in a faraway, exotic locale, told by the real-life hero, who usually, 99 per cent of the time, was male. In this case, the hero of the story is actually a heroine … and, God, ain’t that … Continue readings
Tags : 000 km Mongolian horse race, 1, 13th-century Mongol history, adventure travel, Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan's postal system, global horse races, Lara Prior-Palmer, Moghul Empire, Moghuls, Mongol Derby, Mongol Empire, Mongol Horse Stations, Mongolia, Rough Magic, Rough Magic Riding the World's Wildest Horse Race, travel writing, women travel writers