“It is better to travel well than to arrive” Buddha (#14)

In this episode we explore travel and travel writing. Paul interviews Pete Evans (19 mins), author of Resurrection River and The Holy Dee and they chat about travel books that have inspired them, with lots of travellers’ tales woven in. Gwyn, Lara and Paul also talk about travel writing that has inspired them (1:07). Also a shout out to friend of the show Pat Bracewell (read Pat’s blog here).

Here are some of the books we have been reading recently:

• Alexander Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
• Emily Houghton – Before I Saw You
• Jean Rhys – Wide Sargasso Sea (don’t forget to check out the Big Jubilee Read list)
• Anna Keay – The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown
• Michelle Paver – Wakenhyrst

And here, as promised, is a long list of the travel books we talk about. We hope they inspire you to read and travel from your armchair or beyond!

• Dervla Murphy – A Place Apart (see Charlie Connelly’s article in the New European)
• Geert Mak – In Europe and In America
• Robert Macfarlane – The Old Ways
• Dan Richards – Outpost
• Robert Macfarlane and Dan Richards – Holloway
• Amy Jeffs – Storyland
• Monisha Rajesh – Around the World in 80 Trains
• Bill Bryson – Neither Here Nor There
• Will Ferguson – Hokkaido Highway Blues
• Heinrich Harrer – Seven Years in Tibet
• Hilly Janes – Three Lives of Dylan Thomas
• George Borrow – Wild Wales
• Cees Nooteboom – Roads to Santiago
• Bruce Chatwin – In Patagonia
• Robert Harris – Pompeii