The Granta Book of Travel

Granta Books, 1998 - Travel - 408 pages

Appealing to both those who like to travel and those who just like to read about travel, this book features entries about a wide variety of locations in a style that is part memoir, part reportage, and part good old-fashioned story. Many of the world's best writers are featured in this edition, including Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Paul Theroux, Jonathan Raban, Norman Lewis, Graham Swift, Isabel Hilton, and Christopher Hitchens. Every essay is a gem, from "A Coup" by Bruce Chatwin to "Fat Girls in Des Moines" by Bill Bryson.

About the author

Ian Jack is professor of English literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, a position he has held since 1976. He was born in 1923 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first class honors in 1946. In 1949, he received a D.Phil. from Merton College, Oxford University. His studies of English literature include Augustan Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry, 1660-1750; The Poet and his Audience; and The Poetical Works of Robert Browning.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Granta Book of Travel
• Contributor: Ian Jack
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Granta Books, 1998
• ISBN: 1862071101, 9781862071100
• Length: 408 pages
• Subjects: Travel / Essays & Travelogues