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'The first feeling when writing other cultures...is a loss of authority.' – Eva Hornung'I met a traveller from an...

By Stephanie Green

THE INVITATION HAD come, but did I really want to spend Christmas in Phnom Penh? An introvert's introvert, my...

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE a good plague to get the blood moving. When you look at plagues past it is...

By Norman Swan

IN 2005, I LOST the ability to travel for pleasure. Until then, I would work until I'd banked about...

By Mark Dapin

...this European self has never been self-sufficient: it has always learned, borrowed, or stolen from elsewhere. We need to...to...

By Pat Hoffie

Photography, once a noble art, has become, thanks to the move to digital, a mental illness– Nigel Farndale I BOUGHT my first camera,...

By Kate Veitch

‘AT LAST,' I think, as a boulder hurtles towards me.Go to Sicily and you expect to have a bag...

By Tony Wheeler

THE WORLD HAS changed, provoking heated discussion among international relations observers. The contending theories may seem obscure but the...

By William Tow

IT'S A GOOD question. How many people in the world travelled as tourists last year? With the global population...

By Julianne Schultz

JUST AFTER THE Bali bombings of October 12, 2002, a colleague asked one of those curly questions academics sometimes...

By Adrian Vickers

THE HOUSE ON THE CORNER THEY LIVED IN a small, white house on the corner, a block back from the...

1A MOMENT'S HESITATION was all it took. She stood there trembling on the tree. Noose around her neck. Waiting...

By Ed Wright