Ox Travels Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers Ox Tales Introduced by Michael Palin OxTravels features original stories from twenty five top travel writers including Paul Theroux Sara Wheeler William Dalrymple Patrick Leigh Fermor Lloyd Jones Rory S

Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Godwin, Victoria Hislop, and others Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life changinIntroduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty five top travel writers, including Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, Nicholas Shakespeare, Peter Godwin, Victoria Hislop, and others Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting life changing, affecting, amusing by turn and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters.This extraordinary collection is published in aid of Oxfam and all royalties from the book will support Oxfam s work around the world.
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↠ Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (Ox Tales) || ✓ PDF Download by ↠ Mark Ellingham Peter Florence Barnaby Rogerson Michael Palin Tim Butcher
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Title: ↠ Ox Travels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (Ox Tales) || ✓ PDF Download by ↠ Mark Ellingham Peter Florence Barnaby Rogerson Michael Palin Tim Butcher
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About " Mark Ellingham Peter Florence Barnaby Rogerson Michael Palin Tim Butcher "
Mark Ellingham Peter Florence Barnaby Rogerson Michael Palin Tim Butcher
Mark Ellingham was born in Wiltshire, UK, in 1959 After leaving Bristol University in 1981, he was unable to find an interesting job and decided to create his own, writing the first Rough Guide to Greece He secured a publishing contract Routledge paying an advance of 900 1800 midway through writing it The book was an immediate success and Mark and various friends set to work turning the Rough Guides into a series, producing a dozen further titles over the next five years.In 1985, Mark and a group of Rough Guide writers and editors, including current travel publisher Martin Dunford, bought the series from Routledge and became independent publishers They developed than 200 titles, covering travel and reference subjects as diverse as world music and pregnancy, before selling the company to Penguin Books, in 2002.Mark and Martin continued to run Rough Guides publishing at Penguin, 25 years on from that first title, and created a new one off ultimate travel experience series 25s to mark the anniversary.Mark is also a contributing editor for the world music magazine, Songlines, a director of the travel magazine, Wanderlust, and co publisher of Sort Of Books, which have published bestselling books by Chris Stewart and Tove Jansson, among others He lives in North London with his wife, Natania Jansz, who co wrote the first Greece book and now runs Sort Of Books, and their son, Miles Mark says his interests and passions are charted by the titles on the Rough Guide list, ranging through music, film, football, literature and science He is currently involved in campaigns to raise awareness of the impact of aviation on Climate Change.Mark left Rough Guides in 2007 but continues to work as a co editor on the encyclopedic Rough Guide to World Music He is also a contributing editor at Songlines World Music magazine, and runs a green and ethical publishing list for Profile Books.