A Traveller's Year: 365 Days Of Travel Writing In Diaries, Journals And Letters

A Traveller's Year: 365 Days Of Travel Writing In Diaries, Journals And LettersA Traveller's Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for each day of the year, on the subject of travel and exploration. The extracts convey men and women's experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty first centuries, with an emphasis on the period 1750 1950, the classic era of both European exploration and diary writing. The authors of the pieces range from famous explorers

and her painful decision to step out of his shadow and forge her own brilliant career as a war correspondent

this shocking expose reveals a criminal enterprise that threatens to rot football to its core

Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye

Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the devil's existence

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Angel's kitchen is an oasis in the heart of Rwanda

mother and grandmother are struggling to come to terms with what has happened

sing-along joy and an irresistible celebration of all kinds of children and families

Her younger sister Billie is the one who stands out: brave

Should doctors tell you that your infant daughter is genetically predisposed to breast cancer

Millions of Americans are younger today than they were five years ago

As Benjamin and Bockarie search for a way to restore order