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Berlin with Barney White-Spunner
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Berlin has been a crucible of culture, an industrial powerhouse, a nest of spies, and now, it’s Europe’s capital of cool. Lieutenant General Sir Barney Whit
Joseph Roth: The collapse of the civilized world
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Joseph Roth's short form journalism captured fleeting moments with universal implications, and the social conflict, cultural upheaval, and acceleration of t
Norman Lewis: The 20th century’s greatest travel writer
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Norman Lewis had an instinct for being in exactly the right place to capture traditional ways of life on the brink of modernity, but his books are far from
Steve Kilbey: writing, lyrics & songs about place
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Steve Kilbey is the singer and lyricist of legendary Australian rock band The Church. He's made dozens of albums, and written several volumes of poetry and
Gordon Peake: Insider stories from the world of foreign aid
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Gordon Peake’s work as an international development consultant has led him to the world’s forgotten corners, places once besieged by anthropologists and now
Edith Durham: The traveler who became Albania’s mountain queen
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). When I hiked through the Accursed Mountains last June, I met older Albanians who still referred to Edith Durham as their “mountain queen”. Her books provide
David Thompson and the mapping of Canada
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). David Thompson travelled some 90,000 kilometres across North America as a fur trader and surveyor, mapping one-fifth of the continent. His work was so accur
Rebecca Lowe: Cycling through the Middle East’s fractured mosaic
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). In 2015, Rebecca Lowe set out on a year long cycling trip from London to Tehran, a journey that revealed a splintered mosaic of cultures, countries and lang
Martha Gellhorn: with biographer Caroline Moorehead
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Martha Gellhorn wanted to be known as a novelist. Instead, she’s remembered as one of the 20th century’s greatest war correspondents. She wrote about what w
Guy Kennaway: Life in a Jamaican village
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). One People is a comic novel but Cousins Cove is a real village, and the stories Guy Kennaway tells were gathered during his first ten years as an idle Briti
Sophie Haydock: Egon Schiele and fin de siècle Vienna
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Turn-of-the-century Vienna was a cultural crucible where the air seethed with repressed desire. No artist captured this more vividly than Egon Schiele. Soph
Carole Angier: The strange world of W.G. Sebald
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). W.G. Sebald has been described as “a writer of almost unclassifiable originality”. He wrote about the plight of emigrants, and in particular, emigrants from
David Eimer: Cultural survival in China’s borderlands
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). David Eimer is the author of the critically acclaimed The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China. We spoke about that country's tumultuous border re
Dervla Murphy: Reflections on a lifetime of travel
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Dervla Murphy has been described as a ‘travel legend’ and ‘the first lady of Irish cycling’. For five decades she’s travelled the world in a series of truly
Nigel Barley: The Innocent Anthropologist
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Nigel Barley wrote one of the funniest travel books I've ever read, and it nearly got him kicked out of his academic discipline. We spoke about the grim rea
Jeremy Seal: Modern Turkey and the 1960 coup
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Jeremy Seal is the author of six books, including A Fez of the Heart. We spoke about the infinite courtesies of Turkish hospitality, cultural divides, and t
John Gimlette: Madagascar, and ‘walking the dead’
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). John Gimlette is the author of five books, including The Gardens of Mars. We spoke about Madagascar, ‘walking the dead’, and writing about places on the mar
Sara Wheeler: Russia, Antarctica and how we shape stories
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Sara Wheeler is the author of 10 books, including Mud and Stars. We spoke about her travels in Russia, living as writer-in-residence on an Antarctic researc
Jerry Kobalenko: Searching for ghosts on Ellesmere Island
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Jerry Kobalenko is one of Canada’s most experienced High Arctic travelers, and the author of The Horizontal Everest and Arctic Eden. We spoke about the lure
Lawrence Millman: the Arctic, technology and saving stories
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Lawrence Millman is the author of 18 books, and a master of northern writing. We talked about his book Last Places, eating bird s**t in Iceland, and his eff
Rory Maclean: Berlin, Bowie and the new Cold War
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Rory Maclean is the author of 15 books, including Berlin: Portrait of a City Through the Centuries. We talk about Berlin, making a film with David Bowie, th
Anthropology-lite with Barnaby Rogerson of Eland books
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). Eland has been resurrecting lost travel classics and keeping them in print for more than 35 years. I talk with publisher Barnaby Rogerson about anthropology
Introducing... Personal Landscapes
Donate to Personal Landscapes (https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/personallandscapes). The novelist and island writer Lawrence Durrell believed that everyone has a personal landscape, a landscape that resonates with them on some deep tuning fo
