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After years of wondering myself (particularly around literary festival time), I recently came upon a clever explanation for this phenomenon in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1423525\"\u003EAbroad\u003C\/a\u003E,\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;Paul Fussell's classic study of British literary traveling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EAnother reason for British distinction in both traveling and travel-writing is suggested by Christopher Sykes, who imputes these impulses to the complicated British sense of \"residing on the outskirts of the Roman Empire\" and thus of being teased by a Germanic suspicion that \"we are not wholly satisfactory\". One result of this little unease, Sykes says, is the British desire to escape from oneself (cf. gardening, stamp-collecting, crossword-puzzle working): the \"easiest relief ... is in foreign travel... Delight in travel has long been an English characteristic\".\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt is Britain in fact which (as Fussell goes on to point out) gave birth to both The Travellers Club and to that epitome of \"empiricism and singlemindedness\", the Railway Enthusiast.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt has also been for many years the home of the Dolman Prize, the world's only prize for \"serious travel literature\", now rebranded the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardstanfordawards.com\/\"\u003EStanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award\u003C\/a\u003E. Happily for the authors, the arrival of the new sponsor, Edward Stanford Ltd., owner of Stanford's maps and book stores, doubles the prize money. Luckily for us, it doesn't interrupt the association of the award with The Authors Club, and, I presume, the tradition by which the judges get together at a pub down the road from The Authors Club to decide the winner.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe prize will now become part of a suite of new Edward Stanford Travel Awards. One of these, the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing, is destined for a living travel writer who will be chosen from a long list incorporating nominations from the public, or at least the twittering public:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-BmtBgRc2Imk\/VbgKtUfBEhI\/AAAAAAAABAs\/V-4noT8S3hU\/s1600\/Stanfords.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-BmtBgRc2Imk\/VbgKtUfBEhI\/AAAAAAAABAs\/V-4noT8S3hU\/s320\/Stanfords.JPG\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd now, here's this year's short list for the best travel book of 2014, and their publishers' summaries. Not all the authors are British, just five out of six!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_f7f81e605d07404bb58e0eeb0fc63df3.png_srz_p_271_245_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" height=\"180\" style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cimg src=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_06fcc21561e8421d901b8f0b40a364fc.png_srz_p_271_246_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" height=\"180\" style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003Cspan style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2858273\"\u003EThe land where lemons grow : the story of Italy and its citrus fruit\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by Helena Atlee\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust the Table of Contents has my head spinning:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECitrus crops in Italy -- The scent of lemons -- Curious fruit: citrus collectors in Renaissance Tuscany -- Cooking for the pope -- Golden apples: a case of taxonomic havoc -- A day in Amalfi -- One of the sunniest places in Europe: Sicilian lemons, 'like the pale faces of lovers ...' -- Antiscorbuticks -- A golden bowl of bitter lemons: extraordinary wealth on Sicily's west coast -- A Sicilian marmalade kitchen -- Oranges soaked in sunsets: blood oranges in the shadow of Mount Etna -- The runt of the litter: Liguria's cosseted chinotti -- The sweet scent of Zagara -- Dogged madness: limonaie on Lake Garda -- Battling with oranges in Ivrea -- Green gold: Calabria and the most valuable citrus in the world -- Unique harvest: on the Riviera dei Cebri -- Places to visit -- A citrus chronology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cspan class=\"Apple-tab-span\" style=\"white-space: pre;\"\u003E \u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2817619\"\u003EDown to the sea in ships : of ageless oceans and modern men\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u0026nbsp;by Horatio Clare\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EApplause for the anonymous author of the summary for this book, for using \"wuther\" in its active verb form.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Horatio Clare joins two container ships, travelling in the company of their crews and captains. Together they experience unforgettable journeys: the first, from East to West (Felixstowe to Los Angeles, via Suez) is rich with Mediterranean history, torn with typhoon nights and gilded with an unearthly Pacific peace; the second northerly passage, from Antwerp to Montreal, reeks of diesel, wuthers with gales and goes to frozen regions of the North Atlantic, in deep winter, where the sea itself seems haunted. In Clare's vibrant prose a modern industry does battle with implacable forces, as the ships cross seas of history and incident, while seafarers unfold the stories of their lives... A beautiful and terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects, and a fascinating study of big business afloat, \u003Ci\u003EDown to the Sea in Ships \u003C\/i\u003Eis a moving tribute to those who live and work on the great waters, far from land.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_e5ba9c4926344205913d211eec012851.png_srz_p_271_246_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_bbb3e0b1b3ae4e8c8b4451fe210ebce7.png_srz_p_271_243_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_bbb3e0b1b3ae4e8c8b4451fe210ebce7.png_srz_p_271_243_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" height=\"179\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_e5ba9c4926344205913d211eec012851.png_srz_p_271_246_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" height=\"181\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2926331\"\u003ERising ground: a search for the spirit of place\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by Philip Marsden \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"In \u003Ci\u003ERising Ground\u003C\/i\u003E, Philip Marsden sets out on foot to explore the power of the landscape and the continuing hold it has upon our imagination. Starting in Bodmin Moor and moving westward along the narrowing Cornish peninsula to Land's End with a growing awareness of the great ocean beyond, Marsden travels an ancient route of pilgrimage towards the setting sun, rehearsing the soul's passage after death. Along the way, he seeks out others whose have felt similarly compelled by the landscape, from Geoffrey of Monmouth and the inventors of the Arthurian legends to Tudor topographers and 18th century antiquarians; and from Romantic scholars to post-industrial poets, abstract painters, and new-age seekers. As he camps on clifftops, criss-crosses the moors, and digs around in the archives, Marsden reflects on the spirit of place, asks how we are shaped by our connection to the landscape, and takes us right to the heart of what it means to belong.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2829055\"\u003EWalking the woods and the water: in Patrick Leigh Fermor's footsteps from the Hook of Holland to the Golden Horn\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by Nick Hunt\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"In 1933, eighteen-year-old Patrick Leigh Fermor set out to chance and charm his way across Europe, 'like a tramp, a pilgrim, or a wandering scholar'. The books he later wrote about this walk, including \u003Ci\u003EBetween the Woods and the Water\u003C\/i\u003E, are a half-remembered, half-reimagined journey through cultures now extinct and landscapes irrevocably altered by the traumas of the twentieth century. Nick Hunt dreamed of following in Fermor's footsteps. Eighty years later he began his own 'great trudge'—on foot all the way to Istanbul. He walked across eight countries, following two major rivers and crossing three mountain ranges. With only Fermor's books to guide him, he trekked some 2,500 miles from Holland to Turkey. Why? For an old-fashioned adventure. To discover for himself what remained of hospitality, kindness to strangers, freedom, wildness, the unknown, the deeper currents of myth that still flow beneath Europe's surface. This is a story worthy of Fermor's own.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_0cad75e1f634481a9f0efbb159bdae14.png_srz_p_271_245_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_20fc211940204543a92abb29c5a8c51d.png_srz_p_271_245_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_20fc211940204543a92abb29c5a8c51d.png_srz_p_271_245_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" height=\"180\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/static.wixstatic.com\/media\/ebde9f_0cad75e1f634481a9f0efbb159bdae14.png_srz_p_271_245_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_png_srz\" height=\"180\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2863965\"\u003EIndonesia etc. Exploring the improbable nation\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Eby Elizabeth Pisani\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"In 1945, Indonesia's declaration of independence promised: the details of the transfer of power etc. will be worked out as soon as possible. Still working on the etc. seven decades later, the world's fourth most populous nation is now enthusiastically democratic and riotously diverse. It is one of the richest and most enchanting countries on earth, but is riddled with ineptitude and corruption. Elizabeth Pisani, who first worked in Indonesia as a foreign correspondent, set out to rediscover its enduring attraction, and to find the links which bind together this impossibly disparate nation. This book weaves together the stories of Indonesians encountered on her journey with a considered analysis of Indonesia's recent history, corrupt political system, ethnic and religious identities, stifling bureaucracy and traditional 'sticky' cultures. Fearless and funny, she gives a compelling and sharply perceptive account of a captivating nation.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2945724\"\u003EA journey into Russia\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Eby Jens Mühling\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The recent crises in Ukraine have reminded us that Russia's interests run counter to those of many other nations, but what of the Russian and Ukrainian people themselves? What kind of lives are they leading, and what are their feelings toward the political regime that has so inflamed the West? When German journalist Jens Mühling met Juri, a Russian television producer selling stories about his homeland, he was mesmerized by what he heard. The encounter changed Mühling's life, triggering a number of journeys to Ukraine and deep into the Russian heartland on a quest for stories of ordinary and extraordinary people. Unveiling a portion of the world whose contradictions, attractions, and absurdities are still largely unknown to people outside its borders, \u003Ci\u003EA Journey into Russia\u003C\/i\u003E is a much-needed glimpse into one of today's most significant regions.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/2109918475646809512\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/the-stanford-dolman-travel-book-of-year.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/2109918475646809512"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/2109918475646809512"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/the-stanford-dolman-travel-book-of-year.html","title":"The Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award: the contenders"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-BmtBgRc2Imk\/VbgKtUfBEhI\/AAAAAAAABAs\/V-4noT8S3hU\/s72-c\/Stanfords.JPG","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-8716763380038405393"},"published":{"$t":"2012-09-28T03:30:00.000+12:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2013-01-11T19:46:12.229+13:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Colin Thubron"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Dolman Prize"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Jacek Hugo-Bader"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"John Gimlette"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Julia Blackburn"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Melanie Challenger"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Olivia Laing"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Peter Robb"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Redmond O'Hanlon"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"travel writing"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Dolman Prize for Serious Travel Book of the Year"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cb\u003EThis year's winner is John Gimlette. I'll drink to that!\u003C\/b\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cb\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EComing to work today I found myself driving along behind a Martian on a motorcycle. No, wait, it was a human being in a bright green\u0026nbsp;jerkin with a box of the same colour bolted to either his back or to the bike, I couldn’t really tell, and then... what was that? some kind of little scooper attached to it. Peering harder I saw the words Auckland Council Litter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI was trying to figure out what kind of litter would be small enough to fit in the little box and also need removal so urgently as to call out a special operative on a motorbike, when a large white scrap of something detached itself from the contraption and nose-dived into the gutter, the special op blithely chugging on up the road. Littering! The anti-littering special op was littering!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA few minutes later I was behind a large SUV called a… Murano! What? I asked myself incredulously. They named a SUV after that peaceful little island in the Venetian lagoon, the one with the sunlit waterfront lined with houses all in different hues and shops full of glass menageries and NO CARS? Nissan Marketing, listen to me. Murano: stray cats, yes; fishing boats yes; glassblowing, yes; cars, no.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis trip is truly a case of non-serious travel, I said to myself, having serious travel writing on my mind because I had been reminding myself that I needed to check if the winner of this year's edition of the Dolman Prize, \"Britain’s only dedicated prize for serious travel literature\" (in the words of the Authors' Club, who administer the prize) which rolls around every year in September, had been announced. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xDKS2WkVf-Q\/UISPkRvMBtI\/AAAAAAAAJAI\/DJ-hosHFp7g\/s1600\/Wild_Coast.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xDKS2WkVf-Q\/UISPkRvMBtI\/AAAAAAAAJAI\/DJ-hosHFp7g\/s320\/Wild_Coast.jpg\" width=\"127\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E And the answer is, yes it has, and it is ... \u003Ci\u003EWild Coast\u003C\/i\u003E by John Gimlette. The judging session, the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/dolmanprize.wordpress.com\/dolman-travel-book-award\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EAuthors' Club website\u003C\/a\u003E tells us, was held at a bar just down the road from the Authors' Club. I love this! John Gimlette, chosen over drinks! No relation, I suppose, to Thomas Gimlette, the British Royal Navy Surgeon General who gave his name to the Gimlet, from having encouraged British sailors to add lime juice to their gin to ward off scurvy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI have never actually drunk a gimlet, but I know all about them because the gimlet, and how to make one, plays a major part in Raymond Chandler's most sentimental novel (and my favourite of all of them), \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1189804\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Long Goodbye\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. A young man with white hair, good manners, a drinking problem and a scarred face practically falls into Philip Marlowe's arms out of a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, and becomes a drinking companion and perhaps a friend, for a time, during which he teaches him, and the bartender at their drinking hole, how to make a real gimlet, Rose's Lime Juice and all. When Marlowe learns that he has died, he goes back to their bar and orders a gimlet, to say goodbye. It turns out he is not the only person there drinking a gimlet; there is a woman dressed in black, also drinking alone, who also learned about gimlets from a friend, perhaps the same one. He lights her cigarette; she tells him her name. Linda Loring. As they say in Italy, a name that is a whole programme. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGimlette's book is about the three South American Guianas, one of which, the French one, was where the penal colony of Devil's Island was located, famous in the book world as being the setting for one of the greatest prison escape books of all time, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b1641075\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EPapillon\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E (made into a great movie starring Steve McQueen). \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you, like me, enjoy serious travel writing (defined by the Authors' Club as \"works of literary merit that show excellence in the tradition of great travel writing, combining a personal journey with the discovery or recovery of places, landscapes or peoples to instil a sense of place, excitement and wonder in the reader\", and by me as \"talented writing and no gimmicks\") all the Dolman Prize finalists will be good reading suggestions. Here they are, with a few lines from the publishers to pique your interest:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2580572\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWild Coast\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E by John Gimlette\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"In this compelling and elegant travel memoir, John Gimlette returns to Guyana, the \"Wild Coast\" in South America, to discover his ancestral colonial history - one of brutal, cruel and often uncomfortable truths. Intrigued by the tale of a distant ancestor who perished on the Wild Coast in 1630, John Gimlette returns to South America to find out what has become of this primeval land.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-16amOMw8eZY\/UISQOFXJtUI\/AAAAAAAAJAU\/1pbzC9E4XL4\/s1600\/Harlem_is_Nowhere.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-16amOMw8eZY\/UISQOFXJtUI\/AAAAAAAAJAU\/1pbzC9E4XL4\/s320\/Harlem_is_Nowhere.jpg\" width=\"66\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2591768\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EHarlem is Nowhere: a journey to the Mecca of Black America\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Granta)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. At a crucial moment in Harlem's history, as gentrification encroaches, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles the myth and meaning of Harlem's legacy.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rLKlayRfQGI\/UISRvJ4pREI\/AAAAAAAAJAg\/WyGFs7L-V2o\/s1600\/Thin_Paths.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-rLKlayRfQGI\/UISRvJ4pREI\/AAAAAAAAJAg\/WyGFs7L-V2o\/s320\/Thin_Paths.jpg\" width=\"62\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2598259\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThin Paths; journeys in and around an Italian Village\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, by Julia Blackburn (Jonathan Cape)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"In 1994, while walking the Alta Via, the high path winding from the French border to the Bay of Lerici, a man stopped in a remote village, and found he couldn't forget it. 'I've just bought a ruin in the mountains of Liguria,' he wrote, some years later. 'You'd like it here.' Julia Blackburn married that man and moved to that house in 1999. What she found in the mountains was a new way of life, and one that is fast disappearing.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-mtCPZKQ7Ii8\/UISSRABzBRI\/AAAAAAAAJAs\/te85RPqCZHI\/s1600\/To_A_Mountain_in_Tibet.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-mtCPZKQ7Ii8\/UISSRABzBRI\/AAAAAAAAJAs\/te85RPqCZHI\/s320\/To_A_Mountain_in_Tibet.jpg\" width=\"64\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2576460\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETo a Mountain in Tibet\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, by Colin Thubron (Vintage)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Colin Thubron recently witnessed the death of the last of his family. He is walking on a pilgrimage of his own.His trek around the great mountain, revered by multitudinous others, awakes an inner landscape of solitude, love, grief, restoring precious fragments of his own origins.This is travel writing at its consummate best from an author of unsurpassable experience, sensitivity, and sheer lyrical power.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-uAmYD8afL1Q\/UISSq3t9LQI\/AAAAAAAAJA4\/iD2Jn0UrucE\/s1600\/To_the_River.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-uAmYD8afL1Q\/UISSq3t9LQI\/AAAAAAAAJA4\/iD2Jn0UrucE\/s320\/To_the_River.jpg\" width=\"62\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2600356\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ETo the River: a Journey Beneath the Surface\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, by Olivia Laing (Canongate)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JfEkXtJK9xw\/UISS9AWW3mI\/AAAAAAAAJBE\/3BbxecxXVyM\/s1600\/White_Fever.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-JfEkXtJK9xw\/UISS9AWW3mI\/AAAAAAAAJBE\/3BbxecxXVyM\/s320\/White_Fever.jpg\" width=\"68\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2628242\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EWhite Fever: a journey to the frozen heart of Siberia\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, by Jacek Hugo-Bader (Portobello)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"A lone journey by jeep (and occasionally kayak) across one of the world's most inhospitable and surreal landscapes. An unparalleled insight into the life in Siberia and its various communities and tribes.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd three more, which were on the longlist:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-1g6_i1BLP0o\/UISTX6FNrPI\/AAAAAAAAJBQ\/Yo4NA3WfLOQ\/s1600\/On_Extinction.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-1g6_i1BLP0o\/UISTX6FNrPI\/AAAAAAAAJBQ\/Yo4NA3WfLOQ\/s320\/On_Extinction.jpg\" width=\"65\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2646931\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EOn Extinction: how we became estranged from nature\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E by Melanie Challenger (Granta) Granta doesn't seem to do blurbs, but I can tell you that the contents include Beginnings: natural history museum, London -- First peregrination: West Penwith, Cornwall -- Wild flowers -- Tin -- Ghosts -- Second peregrination: South Georgia, Antartica and the Falkland islands: Whales -- Ice -- Savages -- The third peregrination: North Yorkshire, Manhattan Island and Baffin island: Bones -- Tundra --- Endings: Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7TZ5qT59T-Y\/UISTfWdworI\/AAAAAAAAJBc\/E6frlh-Q_As\/s1600\/Street_Fight_in_Naples.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-7TZ5qT59T-Y\/UISTfWdworI\/AAAAAAAAJBc\/E6frlh-Q_As\/s320\/Street_Fight_in_Naples.jpg\" width=\"65\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2574344\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EStreet Fight in Naples\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E by Peter Robb (Bloomsbury) (I got this out for a friend of mine who is from Naples and he loved it) \"\u003Ci\u003EStreet Fight in Naples\u003C\/i\u003E ranges across nearly three thousand years of Neapolitan life and art, from the first Greek landings in Italy to Robb's own less auspicious arrival thirty-something years ago.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Td7JK9d8mqs\/UISTqm7TVmI\/AAAAAAAAJBo\/DWxIEsybOSA\/s1600\/The_Fetish_Room.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Td7JK9d8mqs\/UISTqm7TVmI\/AAAAAAAAJBo\/DWxIEsybOSA\/s320\/The_Fetish_Room.jpg\" width=\"62\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/search.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/supercity-iii|b2573555\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Fetish Room: the education of a naturalist\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E by Redmond O’Hanlon \"Part biography, part musings on biology and nature, this title presents a moving portrait of one of Britain's greatest travel writers and eccentrics. On this joint road trip with journalist Rudi Rotthier, O'Hanlon visits the places that have made him - schools and vicarages, Oxford, Stonehenge and the Marlborough Downs and many more.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/8716763380038405393\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/dolman-prize-for-serious-travel-book-of.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/8716763380038405393"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/8716763380038405393"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2012\/09\/dolman-prize-for-serious-travel-book-of.html","title":"Dolman Prize for Serious Travel Book of the Year"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"tosca"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"28","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-DKeaBNqmKUo\/VBStvJvL4cI\/AAAAAAAAR4M\/ZsfOjoSDymI\/s1600\/*"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-xDKS2WkVf-Q\/UISPkRvMBtI\/AAAAAAAAJAI\/DJ-hosHFp7g\/s72-c\/Wild_Coast.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});