Inspiring Travel Writing from Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman wrote a travel book, Sons of the Moon (Flamingo), at the age of nineteen, followed by Travels with my Trombone (HarperCollins), based on a year working as a musician in the Caribbean, and Savage Pilgrims (HarperCollins), a memoir about New Mexico, where he lived and taught for several years.
He reviews for the New York Times Book Review and is a contributing editor of Conde Nast Traveler. He has won several poetry awards - the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, a Times Literary Supplement Prize, the Tabla and Peterloo Prizes - in addition to an Arts Council Writer's Award. His short stories have appeared in O Henry Prize Stories, and his poetry in The Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph and The Iowa Review.
He reviews for the New York Times Book Review and is a contributing editor of Conde Nast Traveler. He has won several poetry awards - the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, a Times Literary Supplement Prize, the Tabla and Peterloo Prizes - in addition to an Arts Council Writer's Award. His short stories have appeared in O Henry Prize Stories, and his poetry in The Times Literary Supplement, The Daily Telegraph and The Iowa Review.
Articles by Henry Shukman
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La Marseillaise Antillaise
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Henry Shukman
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Martinique
“How long is the drive?” I ask the bronzed statue behind the car-hire desk in Fort-de-France airport. It’s midnight, and the manoir where I'm spending the night is at the other end of the island. The statue pouts. “A cette...
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Bacchanal Time
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Henry Shukman
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Trinidad & Tobago
Friday morning in the City Gate minibus station, downtown Port of Spain. A high reedy voice resonates through the tiled complex, flowing over a lilting calypso beat and over the heads of the commuters streaming off their buses. It’s the last...
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A Worshipful Company of Provident Adventurers
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Henry Shukman
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Greece
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Mainland Greece
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Thessaloniki
Five fishermen are sitting around on makeshift benches beneath a palm shelter behind Miss Sophie's guesthouse. They wear dusty cut-off slacks and baseball caps. It is nearly noon, they are back from the morning on the sea, and their boats bob on the...
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Celebrity Hotels
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Henry Shukman
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United States
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New York State
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New York
How many ways are there to spell “hotel”? At the Chelsea Hotel, New York, according to its neon sign flickering over nighttime 23rd Street there’s “HOEL” (as in hole) and there’s “HEL” as in (hell-hole, presumably). The Chelsea is said to have had a...
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Savoy Hotel
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Henry Shukman
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United Kingdom
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Greater London
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London
The Savoy is still the epitome of Britannic stateliness. Built as solidly and beautifully as can be, the place is amazingly peaceful, despite being at the heart of a big city. Walls thick as a dungeon’s, doors of solid oak, cornicing all round,...
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Kingdom of Amerindia
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Henry Shukman
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Panama
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other areas of Panama
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San Blas Islands
The engines of the little plane moan in boredom as we duck through airpockets, climbing out of the city. An oily sun winks from the brown meander of an estuary below. Breakers straight as fences drift in across mud flats at the edge of the brown...
Reviews by Henry Shukman
Regent Beverley Wilshire | Henry ShukmanAt the Regent Beverley Wilshire in Los Angeles, aka 'the Pretty Woman Hotel', the first surprise is its lobby - there is an eye-befuddling explosion of blooms occupying the foyer - tulips the size of fists and spiraling tendrils of orchid as tall as...