The shattering of Yugoslavia in the 1990s showed that, after nearly 50 years of peace, war could return to Europe. It came to its bloody conclusion in Kosovo in 1999. Tim Marshall, then diplomatic editor at Sky News, was on the ground covering the Kosovo War. He gives an illuminating account of how events unfolded, drawing on personal experience, eyewitness accounts, and interviews with intelligence officials from five countries.
Shadowplay by Tim Marshall
Rainforests are the lungs of our planet – regulators of the earth’s temperature and weather. We’ve all heard of their systematic destruction but do we know the implications arising from their continuous decline? Tony Juniper talks about his experience at the frontline of the fight to save the rainforests, explaining the science and history of the campaigns, and what it has felt like to be there, amid the conflicts and dilemmas.
Continue reading Tony Juniper: Rainforest: Dispatches from Earth’s Most Vital Frontlines: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2020Kicking off the 2020 Stanfords Travel Writers Festival at Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show, we welcome our team of experts on Japan. Find out just why you should be visiting there in 2020.
From history, art and cultural quirks, to how to plan your trip, Robin Moul (Be More Japan), Matt Spiller and Kylie Clark tell all to Paul Blezard.
Continue reading Japan 2020: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2020Levison Wood talks to Phoebe Smith about his life as an adventurer and his latest book Arabia. Continue reading Levison Wood in Conversation with Phoebe Smith: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019
When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wide-eyed disbelief. But it wasn’t long before she was carefully plotting a route that would cover 45,000 miles, almost twice the circumference of the earth, coasting along the world’s most remarkable railways from the cloud-skimming heights of Tibet’s Qinghai railway to silk sheeted splendour on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express. Continue reading Around the World in 80 Trains: Stanfords Travel Writing Festival 2019
Britain’s greatest mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington talks to Paul Blezard about his career spanning six decades of climbing peaks, across all continents. Continue reading Sir Chris Bonington in Conversation: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019
One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as ‘home’ – our habitat. Continue reading A Brief Guide to the World with Nicholas Crane: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019
Travel writers Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent and Lois Pryce talk to Julia Wheeler about their extensive solo travels by motorbike in many regions all over the world including India’s Arunachal Pradesh, Iran and South America. Continue reading Solo Motorcycle Adventures: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019
When travelling, what is appropriate behaviour when greeting people? Should you offer a handshake, a kiss on the cheek or two kisses? Continue reading Travel Etiquette: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019
Levison Wood talks to Julia Wheeler about his life as an adventurer and his latest book Arabia. Continue reading Levison Wood in Conversation with Julia Wheeler: Stanfords Travel Writers Festival 2019
