Inspiring Travel Writing About the Natural World: Page 10 of 68

"If rivers are a metaphor for life, Tasmania’s pristine Franklin River is breath itself."

"Wilfrid Thesinger annotated the saleroom catalogue which disposed of his lifelong collection of Arabian travel-books. Beside Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta, he commented, “No other book about Arabia can compare with this.”"

"It was a hot and hazy August afternoon as I negotiated the steep hairpin bends of the D239 to the high and pretty Pyrenean village of Lescun, and the car eventually let me know all about it, with steam issuing forth from under the bonnet and..."

"We’re aboard the 1931 Craigellachie dining car (named for the BC town where the “Last Spike” of the transcontinental railway was laid in 1885) on the 650-mile Royal Canadian Pacific circle tour of the Rockies. We ride as if in a Ritz on rails. It’s..."