#2026 “World From My Armchair” Challenge

1. Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 
2. The Wainwright
   

2026:  planning

1. The Great Railway Bazaar – P. Theroux – Asia
2. Impossible Country: Last Days of… – B. Hall – Yugoslavia 
3. In Search of Ireland – H. V. Morton – Ireland
4. A Spy in Rome – Peter Tompkins – Italy
5. Sovietistan: A Journey – E. Fatland – Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan 
6. Is a River Alive? – R. Macfarlane
7. Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe – A. Weymouth
8. Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

2024:

1. The Biggest Estate on Earth – Bill Gammage – REVIEW

2023:

1. A Line in the World: A year by North Sea coast – D. Nors Denmark
2. 1930: Le juif errant est arrivé  – A. Londres  Poland
3. 1957: Hong Kong et Macao – Joseph Kessel –  China
4. 2019: La panthère des neiges – Sylvian Tesson Tibet – READ

2022: 

1. A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson USA 

2020:

1. Surrender – Joanna Pocock  USA
2. Wild Sea: a history of the southern ocean – Joy McCann  Southern Ocean
   
3. Hazelwood – Tom Doigt –  Australia
4. City On Fire: The Fight For Hong Kong – A. Dapiran  China

2019:

1. Indonesia ect. – E. Pisani  Indonesia
   
2. A Time of Gifts – Patrick Leigh Fermor  Bulgaria
   
3. A Poet’s Dublin – Eavan Boland  Ireland
4. Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia –  Pacific Ocean

2018:

1. Wild Kingdom – S. Moss – READ England
   
2. Towards Mellbreak – M. Bragg  – READ England
3. The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Borders – G. Carr – Ireland
   
4. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze – P.  Hessler –  China
5. Border – K. Kassabova – READ  Bulgaria
   
6. Feeling the Heat – J. Chandler – Antarctica (continent)
7. Saga Land – R. Fidler and K. Gislason – Iceland
8. Wounds – F. Keane – Ireland 
9. Deep South – P. Theroux – USA
   
10. Islander: Journey Around Our Archipelago – P. Barkham  England
    
11. From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories – M. McKenna Australia
12. The Revolutionary Ride – L. Pryce – Iran
13. Christ Stopped at Ebloi – Carlo Levi – Italy

2017:

1. The Marches – R. Stewart England
   
2. Foxes Unearthed – L. Jones England
   
3. Village Christmas – L. Lee England
   
4. The Bush – D. Watson Australia
   
5. The Voices of Marrakesh – E. Canetti   Morocco
   
6. The Shepherd’s Life – J. Rebanks England
   
7. The Story of Ireland – N. Hegarty Ireland
   
8. Interstate – J. Sayarer  USA
   
9. The Story of Israel – D. Gordis  Israel
   
10. Walking the Nile – L. Wood start in Nyungwe Forest in Rwanda
    
11. The Running Hare – J. Lewis-Stempel England
    
12. Into the Heart of Tasmania – R. Taylor Australia
13. Congo – D. van Reysbrouck  Congo
14. Position Doubtful – Kim Mahood  Australia