Inspiring Travel Writing from Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester was born and educated in England, has lived in Africa, India and Asia, and now lives in New York.
Having reported from almost everywhere during an award-winning twenty-year career as a Guardian foreign correspondent, he is currently the Asia-Pacific editor for Conde Nast Traveler and contributes to a number of American magazines, as well as to the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and the BBC.
Simon's books include: 'The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Oxford English Dictionary'; 'Outposts: Travel to the Remains of the British Empire'; 'Korea: A Walk through the Land of Miracles'; 'The Pacific'; 'Pacific Nightmare', a fictional account of the aftermath of the Hong Kong hand over; 'Prison Diary, Argentina', the story of three months spent in a Patagonian jail on spying charges during the Falklands war, and 'The River at the Centre of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time'.
Articles by Simon Winchester
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Paradise Found
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Simon Winchester
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Argentina
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Patagonia
I have just been traveling in deepest, wildest Patagonia. While doing so I stumbled upon a small and simple earthly paradise, an Elysian place of beauty and happiness and peace in which I and my two companions found sublime contentment and serene...
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Trying to stay afloat
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Simon Winchester
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French Polynesia
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Society Islands
The 44 remaining inhabitants of Pitcairn Island - the tiny British colonial possession in the South Pacific, inhabited for the last two centuries by the descendants of the mutineers from the notorious HMS Bounty - are currently facing a crucial...
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Rupert, Gidgee & the Internet
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Simon Winchester
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Australia
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Queensland
In a way, this is the story of the arrival of the new century, and another world, in the lives of a young boy named Rupert and his pet lamb, Gidgee. Not to say that their current lives are in any way wanting, or old-fashioned. It is simply that I...
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Antarctica
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Simon Winchester
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France
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Provence
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The cold Antarctic air was filled with albatrosses, terns and skuas; the seas were alive with flotillas of penguins; in the distance, it was said, a pod of humpback whales was cutting through the waves. But the small boy on the boat deck, 8 years...
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Southern Kuriles
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Simon Winchester
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Russia
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Kamtchatka
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Kuriles
Some years ago I stood on a high headland on the far northern tip of the Japanese island of Hokkaido, and through powerful binoculars - costing 100 yen a minute - I gazed across the sea to one of the strangest and most unyielding legacies of the...