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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