CONTENTS

PART ONE
THE QUEST(IONS)

1. The Long White Track
2. Naming Fathers
3. A Letter to the Editor
4. In Berlin

PART TWO
THE TRAVEL WRITING TRIBE

5. Belated Travellers
6. The Travel Writer Who Disappeared
7. A Class of Their Own
8. Lucky Man
9. The Travellee-Reader
10. Beside the Blackwater
11. Flying Pigs

PART THREE
ACROSS THE BORDER
12. Collateral Damage
13. To the East
14. On the Couch
15. Journalism Between Equals
16. Letting the Scholar Speak
17. Upstream, Downstream
18. Winterreise I
19. Winterreise II
Epilogue: The Death of the Author

Afterword: Travel Writing in the Age of Covid-19
Acknowledgements
Notes
Select Bibliography

Tim Hannigan is a writer and academic, and the author of several narrative history books, including A Brief History of Indonesia and the award-winning Raffles and the British Invasion of Java. He holds a PhD from the University of Leicester. He was born in Cornwall and lives in Ireland.