(George Woodcock) Letter From the Khyber Pass and Other Travel Writing

I would hap­pily take George Wood­cock as a mod­el for trav­el writ­ing. He him­self out­lines the sources of his style: eigh­teenth cen­tury Eng­lish mod­els of clar­ity and pre­ci­sion, the writ­ings of ear­ly nat­u­ral­ists and sci­en­tists, and the direct influ­ence of his close friend, George Orwell. Wood­cock is best known as a his­to­rian of anar­chist the­ory, and in Cana­da as a cham­pion of Cana­dian lit­er­a­ture (espe­cially that of the west­ern provinces), but for decades he put bread on the table by trav­el­ing to remote cor­ners of the Earth and writ­ing about it in his crisp, evoca­tive prose. A fine descrip­tion of Sal­ish spir­it dance, for which he only had to trav­el a few miles from his doorstep, and a keen­ly obser­vant tour of the Cana­dian arc­tic show that he didn’t have to leave the coun­try to cre­ate the sense of won­der. But the strongest stuff is when he writ­ing about India, espe­cially the Tibetan Exile com­mu­ni­ties that he him­self helped fund and orga­nize, and in the jun­gle tem­ples of Cambodia.

con­tains:

16584. (Jim Christy) Intro­duc­tion [pref­ace]
16585. (George Wood­cock) Don Jaime’s Fies­ta [arti­cle]
16586. (George Wood­cock) A Day To Mit­la [arti­cle]
16587. (George Wood­cock) Peru Today [arti­cle]
16588. (George Wood­cock) A Road in the Andes [arti­cle]
16589. (George Wood­cock) Cam­bo­dia [arti­cle]
16590. (George Wood­cock) Let­ter From the Khy­ber Pass [arti­cle]
16591. (George Wood­cock) The Excit­ing Cen­tre of the Mid­dle East [arti­cle]
16592. (George Wood­cock) A North­ern Jour­nal [arti­cle]
16593. (George Wood­cock) Lhasa in the Jun­gle [arti­cle]
16594. (George Wood­cock) Oases in a Flu­id Desert [arti­cle]
16595. (George Wood­cock) Spir­it Dance of the Sal­ish Peo­ple [arti­cle]
16596. (George Wood­cock) From Rotorua to Tas­man Bay [arti­cle]
16597. (George Wood­cock) Lost Worlds of Mem­o­ry [arti­cle]
16598. (George Wood­cock) Sev­en Burmese Days [arti­cle]
16599. (George Wood­cock) Encoun­ters With India [arti­cle]
16600. (George Wood­cock) Back to Spain [arti­cle]
16601. (George Wood­cock) The Caves in the Desert [arti­cle]
16602. (George Wood­cock) My Worst Jour­neys [arti­cle]
16603. (George Wood­cock) First For­eign Lands [arti­cle]

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