Thursday, July 2, 2015

Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year shortlist: Writing to inspire the wandering soul

Travel writing holds a special place in the evolution of English literature. Without William Dampier, the explorer and buccaneer whose Voyages and Descriptions (1699) told the story of Alexander Selkirk's sojourn on a desert island, we probably wouldn't have had Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels or The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.













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