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#2026 Travel and Nature 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