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Win a copy of Crazy River
Want a chance to win a signed copy of crazy river ? Just sign up for my newsletter on my blog page and post this to your facebook page using the FB button below A Winner will be chosen at random…..on...
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A man for all seasons: County Kerry, Ireland
“Painters go mad here,” says Johnny, as we watch the operatic show of light, colour and shadow over the rugged coastline of County Kerry. “They try to capture it, but it never stops changing, and how...
View ArticleRichard Grant’s ideal US road trip
Let the dawn rise behind you, and drive on towards the sunset. The great American road trip goes west, not east, and it ends at the barrier of the Pacific Ocean. Westward like the pioneers, you travel...
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Tom Wolfe on his new book,Back to Blood
‘Fourteenth floor,’ says the liveried doorman, walking me across the lobby of a grand old Art Deco building on one of Manhattan’s most expensive streets. What’s the apartment number? I ask. ‘Just push...
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Banff Mountain Book Competition
BEST BOOK – ADVENTURE TRAVEL By the time you put the book down, you may not want to hit the road with Grant, but you’d certainly like to share a few drinks; the highest praise possible for an adventure...
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Omo Child
Tribal infanticide is coming to an end in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. See how in a short film I wrote and narrated The old link stopped working...
View ArticleMy First Deer
I shot my first deer yesterday about two miles from my house — a buzzing elation mixed with a feeling of reverence, none of the sadness I was expecting. She was a mature doe of a good size, taken in...
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DEEP MISSISSIPPI DELTA (as posted on www.naturalhighsafaris.com )
OK, so it’s not our normal stamping ground, but a friend of ours, author, travel writer and television presenter Richard Grant, who I travelled with in Morocco last year (see The Telegraph) is opening...
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Morocco: walking with Berber nomads
The nomads were on the edge of the desert, sheltering from the sun in a camel-hair tent. Their dogs barked and snarled as we approached. Camels and mules swung their heads and stared. Men came...
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Road trip USA: Mississippi
‘Nowhere on Earth is more American than the Mississippi delta’, according to journalist and author Richard Grant, which is why he decided to make it his home. In search of the spirit of the Deep...
View Articlethat’s so delta
‘That’s So Delta!’ is the marketing slogan adopted by the town of Greenwood, Mississippi. I think of it every time I see a camo golf cart, or drive past the dentist with the Coca-Cola sign. When a...
View ArticlePort Magazine
Check out Richard’s essay about fear and risk in issue 4 of Port magazine http://port-magazine.com/2012/01/port-issue-4-for-ipad/
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Radio
Some radio links to check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01bsmdg http://www.worldfootprints.com/info?info=authors-corner http://www.ricksteves.com/radio/protected/descriptions.cfm?showID=376
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Photographs from Saving the condemned children of Ethiopia
The images by Jessica Davis from the article Saving the condemned children of Ethiopia Images by www.jessicadavisphotography.com
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St Lucia’s warmest of welcomes
How strange to be in this vast, opulent villa in St Lucia by myself. I wander through the seven double bedrooms, each with its own bathroom. White walls, high ceilings, dark-wood floors, big airy rooms...
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I’ve been harvesting odd stories and snapshots of life from the crime reports in the local papers here in the Mississippi Delta. Some criminals here have unusual names, like Fonda Fry Golden...
View ArticleTravel Writing Workshop
I’m doing a workshop called The Art and Hustle of Travel Writing in Tubac, Arizona, from August 30th to September 2nd. I will be giving a brief overview of the genre, from Herodotus up to contemporary...
View Article“You are a fool here. I hope you learn this gently.” BBC Q&A
Name: Richard Grant Title/bio: Author, journalist, presenter of the BBC documentary American Nomads, and current documentarian of tribal life in Ethiopia Website: Richardgrant.us Born in: Kuala Lumpur,...
View Articlethe art and hustle of travel writing
I used Grammarly to grammar check this post, because sometimes I get my wucking murds fuddled. Anyway, I am assembling some examples of good and bad travel writing for the upcoming workshop in Tubac,...
View ArticleWhy travel writing matters: Q&A in Tucson Weekly
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