Jan Morris

The blank on the map

Neither fact nor fiction, Dyer’s travel pieces — ranging from the New Mexican desert to the ‘frozen hell-hole’ of Norway — are hard to define. But they’re (mostly) quite brilliant

  • White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

    Geoff Dyer

    Canongate, pp. 233

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