A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration (Travelers' Tales)

Cherry’s book, The Worst Journey in the World, widely considered one of the greatest adventure stories ever written,

Go. And I always feel that, I feel very split always between the desire to stay, the desire for home, the desire for the nest, the desire to gather people around in the home, and that equal passion to shut the door and go, to leave it all behind and seek what’s out there. So I think for me the writing partly comes from the tension between those two

The imagery and the precision, the ability to re-create in words the experience, not to tell the experience, but to re-create it. I think that’s just a mark of good writing. It’s partly through the imagery, partly through the word choice, through narrowing to a very precise point what you have to say.

Paul Theroux’s The Great Railway Bazaar

Patrick Leigh Fermor would be quite high on any list, starting with The Traveller’s Tree, a wonderful book about the Caribbean, absolutely splendid. Everything he does, he has a sort of magic touch with. And I think Evelyn Waugh is very observant, very funny. I’ve read his books more than once.

The Fast Runner,