The New Granta Book of Travel by Liz Jobey
Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing. The 1980s were a golden age, where writers including Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin, James Hamilton-Paterson and James Fenton set out to document life in largely unfamiliar territory, bringing back tales of the beautiful, the extraordinary and the unexpected. But by the mid 1990s, travel writing seemed to change. Mass media meant that nowhere seemed entirely new, and the journeys that appeared in the magazine were made for more complex and often personal reasons. Decca Aitkenhead reported on sex tourism in Thailand, and Wendell Steavenson moved to Iraq as foreign correspondent. What all these pieces have in common is a sense of engagement with the places they describe, and a belief that whether we are in Birmingham or Belarus, there is always something new to be discovered.
Jonathan Raban's writing has won many prizes including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award, and the Thomas Cook Award. He is the author, most recently, of Driving Home: An American Scrapbook (2010). He lives in Seattle. Liz Jobey was the Deputy Editor of Granta 1998-2002 and before that was Editor of the Independent on Sunday Review and Literary Editor of the Guardian. She is the editor of Are We Related?: The New Granta Book of the Family and currently works as a freelance journalist.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847082572 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847082572 |
| Title | The New Granta Book of Travel |
| Author | Liz Jobey |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2011-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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