Inspiring Travel Writing from Sarah Anderson
Having spent several years travelling, Sarah Anderson went to university relatively late to read Chinese at SOAS. In 1979 she set up the Travel Bookshop in Kensington and moved the shop to its present location in Notting Hill in 1982 where it has flourished and is currently basking in the spin-off from the film Notting Hill. In 1990 Sarah sold a large part of her share in the shop leaving her time to write and paint. As well as writing travel articles and book reviews and continuing to be a consultant to the Travel Bookshop, she has had two books published: "Anderson's Travel Companion" (1995) (a reference book to travel books) and the "Virago Book of Spirituality" (1996) and is currently working on an autobiography and a combined guide and literary anthology to Notting Hill. In 1999 she was a judge for the Whitbread Biography prize, the Shiva Naipaul essay prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
Articles by Sarah Anderson
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Bilbao
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Sarah Anderson
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Spain
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Basque Country
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Bilbao
Bilbao was not a popular destination before the Guggenheim Museum opened, but it has become so, and is a terrific place for a short break. My first sight of the museum, with the sun shimmering on its titanium walls, was breathtaking. It is a...
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Before You Die: Cross the Seas to Orkney
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Sarah Anderson
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United Kingdom
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Shetland & Orkney
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Orkney
United Kingdom: Cross the seas to Orkney - wild, elemental and beautiful with an all-pervading sense of history. Sometimes the British Isles seem to have it all. Sarah Anderson
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Before You Die: 'Big Sky Country'
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Sarah Anderson
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United States
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Montana
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Big Sky
United States: See Western Montana - 'Big Sky Country' - which fills you with the feeling of being one with the world. An exciting and magnificent state with mountains, rivers, forests and bears. Sarah Anderson
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Before You Die: Tiger's Nest Monastery
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Sarah Anderson
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Bhutan
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Bhutan Region
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Paro
Bhutan: Climb up to the Tiger's Nest Monastery in Bhutan. Visitors can only go a limited way up to this monastery which hangs over a precipice. Awe-inspiring. Sarah Anderson
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Before You Die: Visit the Galapagos
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Sarah Anderson
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Ecuador
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Galapagos Islands
Ecuador: Visit the Galapagos, where animals reign supreme and are natural rather than tame, and where it is the human beings who are herded about. Sarah Anderson
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Letter from Charleston
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Sarah Anderson
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United States
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South Carolina
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Charleston
The temperature in Charleston is never meant to reach freezing, so I was totally unprepared for the icy blasts which blew in during my stay from the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers. However, a great warm and welcoming place to stay is...
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Round the World 3
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Sarah Anderson
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United States
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New York State
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New York
Despite election fever, there is time for other things and two remarkable new enterprises have just opened in New York. The Rubin Museum of Art has six floors of Himalayan art in what was the old Barney's department store - it is one of the most...
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Round the World 1
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Sarah Anderson
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United States
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Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
I've been planning my belated 'gap year’ for many months and it seems weird to actually be on the road: 25 years of The Travel Bookshop behind me, and I am now about to test the books that I have been selling for so long and try to link them...
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Rawla Narlai
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Sarah Anderson
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India
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Rajasthan
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Pali
For an immediate fix of what it must have been like to have lived in 17th century Rajasthan, but with 21st century comforts, there can be no better place than Rawla Narlai. The hotel, owned by a member of the Jodhpur royal family, is a converted...
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Taj Residency
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Sarah Anderson
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India
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Uttar Pradesh
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Lucknow
Currently the Taj Residency is the only grand hotel in Lucknow but the Oberoi has its eye on an old building in the middle of town so the Taj better beware. This hotel started life as part of the Taj ‘leisure’ chain but has subsequently become a ‘...