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Writing on the Move: Form, Practice and (Im)mobility in Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century Travel Writing Edited by Samia Ounoughi and Tim Hannigan 272 pages, bibliography and index.  ISBN  9781836953555  $135.00/£104.00  Hb (February 2026) eISBN 9781836953562 eBook Februray 2026  The practice of writing typically requires stasis and travel writing emerges from movement. From the concurrent physical and emotional journeys of Ella Maillart and Annemarie Schwarzenbach to the instantaneous digital discourses of contemporary urban travellers, and from the challenges of writing in the extreme conditions of the Antarctic to those of updating guidebooks via Google Streetview, this book examines the tensions between actual journeys and their resultant texts.  Writing on the Move  asks questions about the meaning of ‘movement’ and what counts as travel writing in an age of virtual journeying and enforced immobility. Introduction:  Travel Writing and M...

I read and reviewed Tim Hannigan's (2021) TheTravel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre , back in July 2021, please see full review on Amazon, so I became too impatient to wait until I could buy the hardback of Tim's 2023 book, and have started to read it on the iPad. It gives me the opportunity, though, to express my delight at my favourite early scene from Tim’s Cornish journey in The Granite Kingdom   The exact spot where… When I'm teaching, I encourage my student-writers to focus on embodied experiences at precise locations to enact the physicality of the layout of the land, the term that we borrow from geography in literary tourism studies is poetic geomorphology. My chosen scene from Tim's travel book on Cornwall has already found its way into my workshops. I will be careful not introduce spoilers as I share the moment below. I have taken the Mousetrap Oath. ‘The water was shallow here, glittering over stone, but what I was contemplating seemed horri...