The list of famous travel writers is short — and often seems dominated by wanderlusting Brits. There’s Sir Wilfred Thesiger, desert rat, and Lawrence Durrell, haunter of Mediterranean places. There are Freya Stark and Gertrude Bell, fearless collectors of oases and ancient civilizations. There is the long-distance walker and memoirist Patrick Leigh Fermor — and, closer to our time, Bruce Chatwin (Patagonia, the Outback) and Colin Thubron (Tibet, Siberia, the Silk Road). … Back to Article
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