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Charles Nicholl on Rimbaud’s lost Africa years
Arthur Rimbaud turned French poetry on its head in his late teens. His work influenced everyone from the modernists and the Beats to Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, but he wasn’t recognized or well-liked in his lifetime. He guzzled absinthe, sp
Paul Theroux on life’s vanishing points
The stories in The Vanishing Point, Paul Theroux's new collection, span the globe from Hawaii and the South Seas to Africa and New England. They have all the qualities I love in his fiction: a sharp bite of satire that skewers pretension, c
Julian Evans on Odesa and Ukraine
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Julian Evans first visited the city of Odesa, Ukraine on a boat journey down the Dnipro River in 1994. He fell in love with its distinct personality as a se
Jeffrey Meyers on charting parallel lives
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). A great biography reveals the raw humanity behind lives of rare genius. In his latest book, Parallel Lives: From Freud and Mann to Arbus and Plath, Jeffrey
Cam Honan on the hiking life
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Cam Honan has hiked across 56 countries on six continents, logging over 96,500 km in three decades. Backpacker Magazine called him “the most traveled hiker
Richard Grant: A race to the bottom of crazy
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Richard Grant has lived in Arizona for more than twenty years, and his latest book — A Race to the Bottom of Crazy — is a fascinating blend of memoir, histo
Lesley Downer on poetry in Japan’s deep north
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Lesley Downer's fascination with Japan's most famous poet took her from Tokyo's drab industrial concrete into what was then a seldom-visited part of Honshu.
Thomas Swick: Life in Cold War Poland
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Thomas Swick moved to Warsaw at the height of the Cold War. His newest book Falling Into Place is a memoir of his life behind the Iron Curtain, but it’s als
Eric Cline: Why civilization ended in 1177 B.C.
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). The Late Bronze Age Mediterranean was a surprisingly interconnected place. Trade flourished, interrupted by the odd embargo, and military conflicts used dis
Paul Theroux on Orwell and Burma Sahib
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Long before he wrote 1984 — and long before he was even George Orwell — Eric Blair was a nineteen year old policeman in Burma. Biographies skirt over this f
Jonathan Raban: one of our greatest writers on place
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Jonathan Raban wrote about human landscapes rather than uninhabited ones, and the borderlands between what a place professes to be and what they are. An Eng
James Salter: with biographer Jeffrey Meyers
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). James Salter is the best American writer you’ve probably never read. He was a fighter pilot in the Korean War, and a successful screenwriter. His sentences
Andrew Finkel: Sherlock Holmes and the Ottoman Empire
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Sherlock Holmes fans span the range from casual to obsessive. They included Abdulhamid II, the last ruler of the Ottoman Empire to hold absolute power. A de
The Wakhan Corridor with Bill Colegrave
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). I first got interested in the Wakhan Corridor when I read The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk. This weird bit of political geography once formed a buffer betwee
Justin Marozzi: Tamerlane and Samarkand
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). I’d always thought of Tamerlane as a sort of cut-rate Genghis Khan. It was only when researching a trip to Uzbekistan that I discovered he was one of the wo
Alex Kerr: Finding hidden Japan
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). I’ve often thought of it as one of the world’s most misunderstood countries. Not because it’s uniquely inscrutable but because it’s so beset by stereotypes.
Barnaby Rogerson: The making of the Middle East
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Barnaby Rogerson joins me to talk about the origins of the Sunni-Shia schism, the differences between them, and the current ethnic and linguistic rivalries
Sarah Anderson: Founding The Travel Bookshop
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Sarah Anderson founded the iconic Travel Bookshop in 1979. You might be familiar with it even if you’ve never been to London. It was the inspiration for the
Louisa Waugh: Life on the edge of Mongolia
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Louisa Waugh lived in a village in the far west of Mongolia in the late 1990s, and wrote a remarkable book about her experience. Hearing Birds Fly describes
Bruce Chatwin: with editor and friend Susannah Clapp
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Bruce Chatwin’s first book — In Patagonia — changed our idea of what travel writing could be. He was a traveler, an art expert whose keen eye for fakes made
Laura Trethewey: Mapping our unknown oceans
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). This might just be the strangest landscape I’ve featured on the podcast. It’s also the one we know least about. Laura Trethewey joins me to discuss bizarre
Tim Cocks: Life in Africa’s biggest megacity
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Lagos is a massive city with massive problems. I've always thought of it as a place to avoid. But I came away with a very different impression of Africa’s l
Jeremy Bassetti: Pilgrims on Bolivia’s Hill of Skulls
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Sacred mountains are revered across a wide array of cultures. They're sites of sacrifice and of ritual, perhaps because they feel closer to the gods: physic
The Pyrenees: Matthew Carr on Europe’s savage frontier
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). The Pyrenees form one of the great European landscapes, but they're all too often overshadowed by the romance of the Alps. As you'll hear in today's podcast
Simon Winchester: Outposts at the edge of the world
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). If you think colonialism ended after the Second World War, then my latest conversation may surprise you. Simon Winchester joins me to talk about Tristan da
Tom Parfitt: Walking the High Caucasus
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Tom Parfitt walked across the northern flank of the Russian Caucasus, from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, through republics whose names are synonymous wi
Richard Grant: Travels With American Nomads
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Nothing symbolizes freedom in America like the open road. Richard Grant joins me to discuss frontiersmen and plains Indians, riding the rails, and the role
Anthony Sattin: How nomads shaped settled civilization
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Why have nomads gotten such a bad rap? And why is their knowledge essential for us today? Anthony Sattin joins me to discuss nomadic empires, cycles of hist
The Sahara with Eamonn Gearon
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). If you think the world's largest desert is an empty wasteland, then you’re in for a surprise. The Sahara has been home to cattle pastoralists, mighty empire
Eastern Europe with Jacob Mikanowski
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). The more I’ve travelled in Europe, the more my interest has shifted east, to a region that looks increasingly complex the deeper you delve into it. I reache
