Oxtravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers

by Tim Butcher and Dashka Slater

Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184668496X
• ISBN13: 9781846684968
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Mixed bag

Ho hum. A book with entries from some of the best contemporary English-speaking authors whose assignment was to write about an interaction/relationship from their travels…I expected it to be fascinating. Having traveled widely myself and read books by several of these authors, I was eager to expand on those experiences. Instead, I found many of the entries boring, or at least not engaging. Even if the location, circumstances and/or person were remarkable, the quality of the writing itself was often bland. Some of the entries did engage my interest, but many had the quality of a required school writing assignment that met the requirements but not the spirit. Disappointing overall.