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The Cruise of the Rolling Junk by F Scott Fitzgerald – review

F Scott Fitzgerald's picaresque memoir reflects the American obsession with the automobile, writes Lettie Ransley

Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa – review

Noo Saro-Wiwa's sharply observed Nigerian travelogue reveals another side to the African giant, says Ian Birrell

Mafia State: How One Reporter Became the Enemy of the Brutal New Russia by Luke Harding – review

Luke Harding's account of his time in Russia is sobering reading, writes Edward Lucas

Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain’s worst days out

Crap Days Out celebrates the worst tourist traps Britain has to offer – but having a miserable bank holiday weekend is as British as half-cut morris dancers, says co-author Gareth Rubin

Jonathan Raban: captain of seagoing literature

The marine world has inspired much great writing, but one author, for me, is the real main man

Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world

Editorial: Few authors have been able to equal Patrick Leigh Fermor's ability to dissolve into the places described in his books

Ox Travels: Meetings With Remarkable Travel Writers – review

From an embarrassing tryst with a healer to an encounter with Zimbabwean diamond miners, this anthology proves that the art of travel writing is flourishing, says Ruaridh Nicoll

Paul Theroux’s art of travel

How has travel changed? Do you worry about your carbon footprint? The novelist and travel writer answers our questions

Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough – review

Travis Elborough's book covering three centuries of the seaside is amusing, unsentimental and occasionally unkind about an English institution, writes Lara Feigel

To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review

Olivia Laing's walk from source to sea along the Sussex Ouse is a meandering, meditative delight, writes Paul Farley

Weatherwatch: Travels in West Africa

Tim Radford enjoys Victorian traveller Mary Kingsley's descriptions of weather conditions in Gabon

The Fetish Room: The Education of a Naturalist by Redmond O’Hanlon and Rudi Rotthier – review

Naturalist Redmond O'Hanlon's travels round the England of his boyhood make charming if poignant reading, says Stephen Smith

The Extra Mile: A 21st Century Pilgrimage by Peter Stanford – review

Helen Zaltzman enjoys a tour around Britain's most ancient religous sites

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