Granta 73: Necessary Journeys - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0903141426 ISBN 13: 9780903141420

Publisher: Granta Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Some travel is vital to the traveller. Sometimes you need to get home or get away. Sometimes this is far from easy. Compelling stories about journeys which needed to be made. You might call it necessary travel writing.

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From the Back Cover:

Travel is no longer a luxury and not always an entertainment. Many journeys need to be made - to get home or away from an enemy, to work, to find a last resting place, or because someone has told you to go. This issue of Granta is about such journeys: you might call it necessary travel writing. With:

Decca Aitkenhead - looking for cheap sex and drugs

Manuel Bauer - a child's escape over the Himalayas

Isabel Hamilton - what have they done to Beijing?

Ian Jack - the train crash that stopped Britain

Ryszard Kapuscinski - in the forests of Cameroon

Ian McEwan - on the retreat to Dunkirk, 1940

John Ryle - the last Emperor makes his last journey

Dayanita Singh - inside a sanctuary for girls in Benares

Simon Winchester - how Britain and the US made a people homeless

Plus: The untold story of how the FBI pursued James Baldwin at home and abroad, revealed by James Campbell

About the Author:

Ian Jack edited Granta from 1995 to 2007, having previously edited the Independent on Sunday. He has written on many subjects, including the Titanic, Kathleen Ferrier, the Hatfield train crash and the three members of the IRA active-service unit who were killed on Gibraltar. He is the editor of The Granta Book of Reportage and The Granta Book of India, and the author of a collection of journalism, The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain. He lives in London and now writes for the Guardian.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Publications
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0903141426
• ISBN 13: 9780903141420
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 258
• Editor: Jack Ian