The Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2016 Shortlists Announced

We have been waiting for this day. We can finally put these stickers on books because the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2016 Shortlists have been announced for the following six categories: Fiction (with a sense of place), Adventure Travel Book of the Year, Children’s Travel Book of the Year, Food and Travel Book of the Year,  Illustrated Travel Book of the Year and Innovation in Travel Publishing.

Launched in 2015, the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards celebrates the best travel writing, and travel writers, in the world. This year the category list has grown considerably to honour even more talent in this sector.

The shortlists are as follows:

Specsavers

Fiction (with a sense of place):

• The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape)

 

• The Muse by Jessie Burton (Picador)

• To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey (Tinder)

• The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel (Canongate)

• The Tobacconist by Robert Seethaler (Picador)

• Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (Granta)

 

Wanderlust

Adventure Travel Book of the Year:

• Africa Solo by Mark Beaumont (Bantam Press)

 

• Cycling the Earth by Sean Conway (Ebury)

• Crossing the Congo: Over Land and Water in a Hard Place by Mike Martin, Chloe Baker and Charlie Hatch-Barnwell (C. Hurst & Co)

• Dare to Do: Taking on the Planet by Bike and Boat by Sarah Outen (Nicholas Brealey)

• Climbing Days by Dan Richards (Faber & Faber)

• Walking the Himalayas: An Adventure of Survival and Endurance by Levison Wood (Hodder & Stoughton)

National Book Tokens

Children’s Travel Book of the Year:

• Atlas of Oddities by Clive Gifford & Tracy Worrall (Red Shed)

• Atlas of Animal Adventures by Lucy Letherland, Rachel Williams and Emily Hawkins (Wide Eyed Editions)

• Hello World: A Celebration of Languages and Curiosities by Jonathan Litton and L’Atelier Cartographik (360 Degrees)

• A River by Marc Martin (Templar)

• A Year Full of Stories: 52 Folk Tales and Legends from Around the World by Angela McAllister and Christopher Corr (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books)

• A Walk on the Wild Side by Louis Thomas (Frances Lincoln Children’s Books)

 

Food and Travel magazine

Food and Travel Book of the Year:

• Persepolis: Vegetarian Recipes from Peckham, Persia and Beyond by Sally Butcher (Pavilion)

• The Saffron Tales: Recipes from the Persian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan (Bloomsbury)

• Provence to Pondicherry: Recipes from France and Faraway by Tessa Kiros (Quadrille)

• Eivissa: The Ibiza Cookbook by Anne Sijmonsbergen (HarperCollins)

• Rick Stein’s Long Weekends by Rick Stein (BBC Books)

• Summers Under the Tamarind Tree: Recipes and Memories from Pakistan by Sumayya Usmani (Frances Lincoln)

 

• Explorer’s Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery and Adventure by Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert (Thames and Hudson)

• The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World (Lonely Planet)

• An Atlas of Countries That Don’t Exist by Nick Middleton (Macmillan)

• This Land: Landscape Wonders of Britain by Roly Smith and Joe Cornish (Frances Lincoln)

• Britain’s Tudor Maps: County by County by John Speed (Batsford)

• The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths, Mysteries, Phantoms and Fates by Malachy Tallack and Katie Scott (Polygon)

London Book Fair

Innovation in Travel Publishing:

• Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics by James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti (Particular Books)

• Citix60 series by Victionary (Gingko Press)

• Curiocity: In Pursuit of London by Henry Eliot and Matt Lloyd-Rose (Particular Books)

• Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton (Workman)

• Blue Crow Media Maps (Blue Crow Media)

• Lonely Planet Best of series (Lonely Planet)

The shortlist for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, in association with the Author’s Club, will be announced on the 17th January. 

The winners of all categories, as well as the Lonely Planet Travel Blog of the Year and Bradt Travel Guides New Travel Writer of the Year, and the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing, will be revealed on 2^nd February at a star-studded dinner during the Stanfords Travel Writers Festival at Destinations: The Holiday and Travel Show at Olympia.