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Travel writing on the web
Guidebooks must lead readers not only through the city but also the cyber world, finds Mick SinclairHow to find a good guide
As The Observer launches its Guidebook of the Year competition, travel writer Toby Green says the best books should inspire as well as inform. Don't look down
An element of fiction can be found in WG Sebald's Vertigo. Knight moves
With a 14th-century poem as a guidebook, Roly Smith follows Sir Gawain's fateful journey across the Staffordshire moors Don't forget your toothbrush
Colin Thubron tells Nicholas Wroe about the travel writer's nomadic urge and his new book, In Siberia Down Under by Bill Bryson digested in 400 words
Digested read: Gee. Australia is a very, very big country and no one knows much about it. Especially Americans. Which makes it the ideal spot for another of my homey little travelogues... My father's island
Last year, when the writer Ferdinand Dennis, a black Briton, went to Jamaica to bury his father, he found, amid the pain and grief, a place he could call home. Interview: Paul Theroux
He lives in a house on stilts, his best friend is a postman, he sports a dolphin tattoo on his ankle, and his neighbours know him as a beekeeper. But even from his home in Hawaii, the provocative writer Paul Theroux shows no sign of losing his literary sting Wherever turns you on
What makes us lose our inhibitions and get embroiled in steamy holiday affairs? Lucretia Stewart, editor of a new anthology on the subject, knows better than most... Read an extract
Reviews
Take a walk on the wild side
Stuart Jeffries follows Edmund White on an artfully aimless pleasure cruise in The Flneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of ParisThe age of the train
Tess Read's Vietnam By Rail is a timely guide to one of the trendiest travel destinations, says Charles Burgess RAC Inspected Hotels and B&Bs;
Charles Burgess on the latest edition of the RAC's no-nonsense guide. One for the glove compartment The beginning of mass tourism
Flight to the Sun is the story of the entrepreneurs who made foreign travel affordable Privets on parade...
Roy Moxham unearths a horticultural marvel worthy of Spike Milligan in The Great Hedge of India Venetian finds
A Great Weekend in Venice - all you need to guide you around The starched cuff guide
Francis Galton on how to travel, Victorian style The rough guide to Greene lands
From Brighton to Haiti, Julia Llewellyn Smith follows in some giant footsteps and makes her own impression in Travels Without my Aunt Book of the week: skiing
Off Piste by Wayne Watson Book of the week: walking in Britain
Coast-to-Coasting/Eight walks Crossing Britain by John Gillham and Ronald Turnbull, published by David & Charles £19.99 Masterclass in photography
Travel Photography - A Guide to Taking Better Pictures by Richard I'Anson White stuff for boarders
World Snowboarding Guide 2001 | Time Out Guide: New Orleans Book of the week: walking in the Big Apple
Time Out Book of New York Walks Books of the week: US guides
Discovery Travel Adventures - a new series Altered States
Gary Younge journeys south to write the potential classic No Place Like Home Don't look down
An element of fiction can be found in WG Sebald's Vertigo. Books of the week: travelling and eating
Out to Eat, London 2001 and Zagat Survey, 2001 London Restaurants Book of the week: Dorling Kindersley travel guides
Eyewitness Travel Guide to Istanbul and Deluxe Gift Edition for Sydney The trail of cherry blossom, cowsex and saké
If you want real Japanese culture, then follow Will Ferguson as he hitchhikes round the land of the rising sun in Hokkaido Highway Blues Book of the week: Europe by train
Europe is in the throes of a railway renaissance. And not only do many modern trains jet along at 120mph, but they tend to drop you in the city centre, rather than the local equivalent of Hounslow, says Katie Wood. Upside-down view of down under
Michael Davie and Bill Bryson get funny peculiar ideas about Australia Life on fast forward
Pico Iyer investigates the global soul of the modern-day nomad in The Global Soul Harmony in a harsh land
Syrian president Hafiz al-Assad may have been a despot, but no one should forget his role in cultivating religious tolerance, says William Dalrymple A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
A wealth of practical information and photographs from Carl Shilleto and Mike Tolhurst Welcome to Florida, home of Noah's Ark
Rory Maclean's Next Exit to Magic Kingdom makes you pleased that he saved you the trouble of going to Florida Just deserts
Martin Buckley set out to circle the globe travelling only through deserts. Grains of Sand brings his journey to life Fight club
John Duncan's In the Red Corner tells the story of his trip to the strange world of Cuban boxing My top 10
My favourite travel books
Chosen by Guardian First Book Award-nominated author Gary YoungeA beginner's guide to travel writing
Fully booked
The legendary Eric Newby, author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush and A Small Place in Italy, on his favourite travellers' anecdotes and recommended readsFeatured author
Bill Bryson
Get the lowdown on the author of Notes From a Small Island
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