Oxtravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers

By Tim Butcher and Dashka Slater

Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Godwin, Victoria Hislop, 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 around the world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184668496X
• ISBN13: 9781846684968
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Mixed bag

Ho hum. A book with entries from some of the best contemporary English-speaking authors whose assignment was to write about an interaction/relationship from their travels…I expected it to be fascinating. Having traveled widely myself and read books by several of these authors, I was eager to expand on those experiences. Instead, I found many of the entries boring, or at least not engaging. Even if the location, circumstances and/or person were remarkable, the quality of the writing itself was often bland. Some of the entries did engage my interest, but many had the quality of a required school writing assignment that met the requirements but not the spirit. Disappointing overall.