Minner

This enquiry into the explorer mindset is part meditation, part memoir, from one of 'Britain's greatest explorers' (Telegraph)

The Great North Road conjures up the golden age of motoring: when the open road spelled freedom and adventure and driving was fun. But isn't it now buried by the motorway-grade stretches and by-passes of the A1? Not a bit of it. The original route - 400 miles from London to Edinburgh - can still be driven and author Andy Bull does just that.

A Financial Times Travel Book of the Year 2021 Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing''s queasy colonial connections? Travelling from Monaco to Eton, from wintry Scotland to sun-scorched Greek hillsides, Hannigan swills beer with the indomitable Dervla Murphy, sips tea with the doyen of British explorers, delves into the diaries of Wilfred Thesiger and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and gains unexpected insights from Colin Thubron, Samanth Subramanian, Kapka Kassabova, William Dalrymple and many others. But along the way he realises how much is at stake: can his own love of travel writing survive this journey? The Travel Writing Tribe tackles head on the fierce critical debates usually confined to strictly academic discussions of the genre. This highly original book compels readers and travellers of all kinds to think about travel writing in new ways.

77 fiktive Figuren und ihre Denkmäler, von Knallenfalls bis Karpfenjule, von Rübezahl bis Eulenspiegel, werden in diesem Büchlein aufgeführt. Die meisten der enthaltenen Denkmäler finden sich in deutschen Großstädten, aber auch Denkmäler in den europäischen Nachbarländern und sogar in den USA sind enthalten. Für alle, die gerne Städte erkunden und sich für Denkmäler interessieren.