Travelogue

Guy Delisle - Burma Chronicles

TRAVELOGUE COMIC French-Canadian animator and cartoonist Guy Delisle previously documented his experiences in far-flung inaccessible countries with Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China and Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. His third graphic travel…

Christopher McDougall - Born to Run

SOCIAL TRAVELOGUE In 2001, former war correspondent and much-injured running nut Christopher McDougall asked his doctor why his foot hurt so badly. The medic, an expert in sports medicine, informed McDougall that at over six foot tall, his body was…

Aleksandar Hemon - The Lazarus Project

FICTIONAL TRAVELOGUE (Picador) Aleksandar Hemon draws on his Bosnian heritage to weave two narratives into one startling insight of a nation wracked with war, poverty and pogroms. There are obvious parallels to his own life, as Vladimir Brik travels…

Paul Bibeau - Sundays with Vlad

COMIC TRAVELOGUE (Constable & Robinson) Paul Bibeau is a man on a mission. He wants to tell the world the story of Dracula, the real Vlad the Impaler facing off against Bela Lugosi’s Hollywood-ised version, and explaining why never the twain can meet.

Bidisha - Venetian Masters: Under the Skin of the City of Love

TRAVELOGUE (Summersdale) Bidisha probably had good reason to feel jaded with her pressured life of academia and media in London. After signing her first book deal at 16, the precocious novelist and arts journo spent the next decade writing for…

AA Gill

Previous Convictions (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

COMIC TRAVELOGUE Enthusiastic wildlife-slayer, owner of a canary yellow Bentley, close friend of Jeremy Clarkson: AA Gill is enough to give the more mung bean-minded a coronary. Indeed, after a foreword encomium to criticism, he begins Previous…