Inspiring Travel Writing from Barnaby Rogerson: Page 4 of 4
Articles by Barnaby Rogerson: Page 4 of 4
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Night Train from Stamboul
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Turkey
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Marmara
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Istanbul
Hurry. One of the last great railway journeys into Asia will soon be no more. In three years time the working magnificence of Istanbul’s Haydarpasha station will be severed forever from the tracks that lead south and east. If you put a spoon in a...
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The Four Faces of Algeria
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Algeria
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Algiers Region
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Algiers
Algiers will always be married to its past. Her streets and harbour have witnessed some of the most decisive engagements of world history. It was outside Algiers that the Emperor Charles V waded through the surf as he led the Last Crusade - aided by...
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The Sallee Rovers
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Morocco
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Atlantic Coast
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Rabat
There never was, nor ever can be again, such a perfect example of a confederation of the brethren of the sea as that of the Pirate Republic of Bou Regreg. Rabat and Sale were the twin cities at the heart of this Republic. They were both guarded by...
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Libya Sur Commande
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Libya
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Tripoli Region
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Tripoli
‘But I have never met her, and what with my writing and publishing and the girls, I really don’t think I have the time these days...” “It’s no good Barnaby, she has already decided you will be her guide. I’m sure you’ll like her – she is longing to...
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A Brief History of Timbuktu
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Mali
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Niger River
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Timbuktou
Timbuktu is a Sahelian city constructed of one part history and two parts myth. It stands just15km north of the Niger river, surrounded by the Sahara desert. It first sprung into the consciousness of the world in the fourteenth century, when the...
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A Brief History of Ancient Lycia
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Turkey
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Mediterranean Coast
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Antalya
History begins with the Flood. For at the end of the last Ice Age Northern Asia, North America and Europe was released from the grip of a vast glacial super-continent, releasing torrential rivers, changing the weather for the wetter which produced a...
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The Green Mission: London to Klosters by Train
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Switzerland
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Swiss Alps
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Klosters
We were on a green mission: to travel from the streets of London to the snow-covered pavements of Klosters in twenty-four hours by train. But we didn’t want to appear too carbon-footprint earnest and added four additional ‘qualifications’. We should...
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A Journey to Bosra
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
I know a woman who offers up her necklace of stories, a string of ancient stones mixed with worn glass trading beads, to her children. I have watched them finger the different colours and feel the shapes that have come warmed from their mother’s...
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Charles Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta
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Barnaby Rogerson
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Syria
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The Southern Provinces
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Damascus
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.” T. E. Lawrence had...
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