{"id":970,"date":"2008-09-24T03:16:53","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=970"},"modified":"2018-08-12T04:09:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T08:09:24","slug":"george-woodcock-letter-from-the-khyber-pass-and-other-travel-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"(George Woodcock) Letter From the Khyber Pass and Other Travel Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would hap\u00adpily take George Wood\u00adcock as a mod\u00adel for trav\u00adel writ\u00ading. He him\u00adself out\u00adlines the sources of his style: eigh\u00adteenth cen\u00adtury Eng\u00adlish mod\u00adels of clar\u00adity and pre\u00adci\u00adsion, the writ\u00adings of ear\u00adly nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adists and sci\u00aden\u00adtists, and the direct influ\u00adence of his close friend, George Orwell. Wood\u00adcock is best known as a his\u00adto\u00adrian of anar\u00adchist the\u00adory, and in Cana\u00adda as a cham\u00adpion of Cana\u00addian lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture (espe\u00adcially that of the west\u00adern provinces), but for decades he put bread on the table by trav\u00adel\u00ading to remote cor\u00adners of the Earth and writ\u00ading about it in his crisp, evoca\u00adtive prose. A fine descrip\u00adtion of Sal\u00adish spir\u00adit dance, for which he only had to trav\u00adel a few miles from his doorstep, and a keen\u00adly obser\u00advant tour of the Cana\u00addian arc\u00adtic show that he didn\u2019t have to leave the coun\u00adtry to cre\u00adate the sense of won\u00adder. But the strongest stuff is when he writ\u00ading about India, espe\u00adcially the Tibetan Exile com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adties that he him\u00adself helped fund and orga\u00adnize, and in the jun\u00adgle tem\u00adples of Cambodia.<\/span><\/p>\n

con\u00adtains:<\/span><\/p>\n

16584. (Jim Christy) Intro\u00adduc\u00adtion [pref\u00adace]<\/span>
\n16585. (George Wood\u00adcock) Don Jaime\u2019s Fies\u00adta [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16586. (George Wood\u00adcock) A Day To Mit\u00adla [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16587. (George Wood\u00adcock) Peru Today [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16588. (George Wood\u00adcock) A Road in the Andes [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16589. (George Wood\u00adcock) Cam\u00adbo\u00addia [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16590. (George Wood\u00adcock) Let\u00adter From the Khy\u00adber Pass [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16591. (George Wood\u00adcock) The Excit\u00ading Cen\u00adtre of the Mid\u00addle East [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16592. (George Wood\u00adcock) A North\u00adern Jour\u00adnal [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16593. (George Wood\u00adcock) Lhasa in the Jun\u00adgle [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16594. (George Wood\u00adcock) Oases in a Flu\u00adid Desert [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16595. (George Wood\u00adcock) Spir\u00adit Dance of the Sal\u00adish Peo\u00adple [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16596. (George Wood\u00adcock) From Rotorua to Tas\u00adman Bay [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16597. (George Wood\u00adcock) Lost Worlds of Mem\u00ado\u00adry [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16598. (George Wood\u00adcock) Sev\u00aden Burmese Days [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16599. (George Wood\u00adcock) Encoun\u00adters With India [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16600. (George Wood\u00adcock) Back to Spain [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16601. (George Wood\u00adcock) The Caves in the Desert [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16602. (George Wood\u00adcock) My Worst Jour\u00adneys [arti\u00adcle]<\/span>
\n16603. (George Wood\u00adcock) First For\u00adeign Lands [arti\u00adcle]<\/span><\/p>\n

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I would hap\u00adpily take George Wood\u00adcock as a mod\u00adel for trav\u00adel writ\u00ading. He him\u00adself out\u00adlines the sources of his style: eigh\u00adteenth cen\u00adtury Eng\u00adlish mod\u00adels of clar\u00adity and pre\u00adci\u00adsion, the writ\u00adings of ear\u00adly nat\u00adu\u00adral\u00adists and sci\u00aden\u00adtists, and the direct influ\u00adence of \u2026<\/p>\n

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