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Apr 2019
4:38pm, 25 Apr 2019
36,159 posts
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Diogenes
Smeg?
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Apr 2019
4:49pm, 25 Apr 2019
39,318 posts
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McGoohan
Bosch?
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Apr 2019
4:50pm, 25 Apr 2019
27,412 posts
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LindsD
Almost as bad 
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Apr 2019
12:16am, 26 Apr 2019
1,362 posts
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beebop
I enjoy reading travel books (more than I enjoy travelling, probably). Josie Dew did a talk at the Local Bike Shop - very interesting, and she had some books for sale so of course I bought, um, three. She was very entertaining, and happily gave me her address so I could send the £5 I didn’t have on me for the third book. Top tip for travel essential from her: flip flops. Thinking of some of the loos and campsites and showers there are, I see her point.
Loved PLF when younger, but haven't read for over twenty years. Hardbacks still look very pretty on the shelf. Was working part time in a secondhand/antiquarian bookshop at the time, and always took payment in books (at bookseller discount, it was much better value). Eric Newby and Bruce Chatwin also, although wouldn’t quite classify the latter as a travel writer.
Only travel writer I can think of that I thoroughly dislike is Paul Theroux. Anyone disagree?
Read No Picnic on Mount Kenya a few years ago, which I would classify as a travel book for the purpose of recommending it. Italian prisoners of war break out from a British run PoW camp in order to climb titular mountain with the aid of a food can label. Not entirely sure why there hasn’t been a film made of this. Vague suspicion I may have two copies - if I find the second, I’ll put it up for grabs. Finding it is the challenge. It was reprinted recently, and I think I found a copy in a charity shop with ‘extra material’ and bought it anyway. Need to dig through the piles...
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Apr 2019
6:34am, 26 Apr 2019
36,166 posts
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Diogenes
I don’t dislike Theroux, although it’s so long since I read him I can’t recall much about his books. He might be a bit dry and pompous?
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Apr 2019
6:48am, 26 Apr 2019
112,089 posts
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GregP
And were back to Anne Mustoe.
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Apr 2019
6:49am, 26 Apr 2019
112,090 posts
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GregP
We’re.
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Apr 2019
8:15am, 26 Apr 2019
39,326 posts
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McGoohan
Nope, not read her books. Seems like a similar trajectory to Josie Dew in a way: fund a lifestyle by writing about that lifestyle. I don't mean that critically: it seems a good a plan as any.
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Apr 2019
8:35am, 26 Apr 2019
27,425 posts
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LindsD
That really annoys me but it's only jealousy.
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Apr 2019
8:54am, 26 Apr 2019
36,167 posts
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Diogenes
I feel a similar way about what I think of as wish-fulfilment fiction, i.e. men having high-powered, exciting careers while enjoying lots of sex, drugs, hair-raising experiences and getting away with it all, coming out unscathed, unchanged, and universally admired.
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