The Travel Writing Tribe

Journeys in Search of a Genre

The Travel Writing Tribe
Tim Hannigan
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Hardback
h216 x 138mm - 360pg
13 May 2021 UK
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9781787384705
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Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing' s queasy colonial connections? Travelling from Monaco to Eton, from wintry Scotland to sun-scorched Greek hillsides, Hannigan swills beer with the indomitable Dervla Murphy, sips tea with the doyen of British explorers, delves into the diaries of Wilfred Thesiger and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and gains unexpected insights from Colin Thubron, Samanth Subramanian, Kapka Kassabova, William Dalrymple and many others. But along the way he realises how much is at stake: can his own love of travel writing survive this journey? ' The Travel Writing Tribe' tackles head on the fierce critical debates usually confined to strictly academic discussions of the genre. This highly original book compels readers and travellers of all kinds to think about travel writing in new ways.
' Much more than a who, what and why of travel writing, Tim Hannigan' s book is a meditation on why we travel and our need to travel and experience other places. Essential reading in the age of lockdown and Instagram. ' -- Nicholas Walton, author of ' Singapore, Singapura' and ' Genoa, "La Superba"' ' Is travel writing dead? No, claims Hannigan, as he embarks on an intriguing quest to discuss the genre with its practitioners. His lucid study offers an intelligent and entertaining examination of its key aspects, including authenticity, gender, reception, practices and purpose. ' -- Barbara Schaff, Chair of British Literature and Culture, Georg-August University Goettingen, and author of ' Handbook of British Travel Writing' ' "The Travel Writing Tribe" walks the tightrope between travel writing, memoir and essay without skipping a beat. Interrogating a genre long critiqued for exoticizing the Other, Hannigan masterfully and engagingly illustrates how and why travel writing continues to fascinate. ' -- Rune Graulund, Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Culture, University of South Denmark, and co-editor of ' Postcolonial Travel Writing: Critical Explorations'
Tim Hannigan is a writer and academic, and the author of several narrative history books, including ' A Brief History of Indonesia' and the award-winning ' Raffles and the British Invasion of Java' . He holds a PhD from the University of Leicester. He was born in Cornwall and lives in Ireland.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787384705
Published: 13 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers
Format: Hardback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 360

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