Sara Wheeler

Click the links below to view some of Sara’s other writings (there are many more not listed here):

Isabella Bird
Requiem
The End of the Bolster
Introduction to Shackleton’s Boat Journey
Cavafy: The Man of the Crowd (This was the first thing Sara ever published. She didn’t write it – she translated it from Modern Greek for an anthology. She was 21.)
Introduction to Access All Areas
Introduction to Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa
Introduction to the Second Edition of Chile
- Chile Revisited – a new introduction to the book Sara wrote about Chile, Travels in a Thin Country (1994)
Introduction to the Second Edition of Evia
- Evia: An Island Apart was Sara’s first book, written in 1989 and still in print. Here’s an introduction she wrote to the second edition.
Introduction to the Southern Gates of Arabia
- Freya Stark– a favourite of Sara’s. Here’s Sara’s introduction to The Southern Gates of Arabia (1936), republished by the Folio Society in 2014.
Introduction to The Worst Journey in the World
- In Sara’s opinion Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s The Worst Journey in the World (1922) is a masterpiece not just of polar literature but of all literature. Here’s her introduction to the 2003 Pimlico edition
Introduction to Winesburg, Ohio
- Sara wrote an introduction to one of her favourite twentieth-century American novels, Winesburg, Ohio, written in 1919 by Sherwood Anderson.
Learning to Bellydance
- ‘Learning to Belly Dance’, first published in the Oldie, 1996
On the Arctic: Vanity Fair
On the Black Sea
On Writing Biography
On camping in the Caucasus
On Siberia in Winter
On Football with Monks on the Tibetan Plateau
On Guanxi
On Summer in Rural Russia
On Literary Russia
On Rugby in Sardinia
On St Helena
On Macedonia
On Louisiana
On the Argentinian Puna
On the South Pole
On Taltsy Museum in Siberia
On Labrang Tashi Khyil
On Xi’an
On Yunnan to Sichuan
On the Atacama Desert
On Martha Gellhorn
On The Last Mail Ship
On St Helena
Arctic Talk
Is Travel Writing Dead?
An obituary of Sara’s agent of 23 years
On Microloans in Malawi
Saving Crystal Palace
On Tierra del Fuego
On Russian Trains
Roddy Doyle Profile
Saving Elephants in Kerala
Introduction to The Best Travel Writing
On Icebreakers
On Antarctica
On houseswapping 1
On houseswapping 2
On houseswapping 3
Travels with my small sons

Please click below to see some of my reviews on other peoples’ work (there’s plenty more of this on the Reviews page):

Audio

Sara has also written an introduction to Domestic Manners of the Americans, written in 1832 by another of her heroines, Fanny Trollope (mother of Anthony, and very much else besides). You can read about the book, and buy the e-edition for $3.99, here

AND see other pages of the site (Events and And Another Thing) for links to a couple of programmes made in lockdown

Other Writings

Click the links below to view some of Sara’s other writings (there are many more not listed here):

Please click below to see some of my reviews on other peoples’ work (there’s plenty more of this on the Reviews page):

Audio

On the Trans-Siberian in Winter

Wedding venues and tutus

Beneath Another Sky