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):
- Robert Twigger’s survey of the Himalayas is decidedly quirky
- The story behind the story of Robinson Crusoe
- The story of Sikkim’s last king and queen reads like a fairy tale gone wrong
- The revolution that went up in smoke
- Thin air and frayed tempers
- For fashionable Victorian travellers, the only way was Norway
- Search for the Yeti at your peril
- Thin air and frayed tempers
- The revolution that went up in smoke
- A Victorian sailor is the new love of my life
- The greatest American Arctic disaster
- A paralysed landscape
- Dreaming of a golden future: there will always be people willing to sacrifice all in the pursuit of gold
- A new world in the making
- The story of Sikkim’s last king and queen reads like a fairy tale gone wrong
- Way out west
- Serving Christ and colonialism
- Lust in a Hot Climate
- The iceman cometh
- The year of the rat
- The Greatest Survival Story Of All Time
Audio
- On Captain Scott’s Men – Five part series written and presented on Radio 4
- Radio Three Essay on the Canadian Arctic
- Sara and Apsley Cherry-Garrard on the World Service
- Sara on Start the Week
- Sara appears on Radio 4’s ‘Museum of Curiosities’
- Sara on Radio 4’s A Good Read
- Another appearance on A Good Read
- Radio Three ‘Nightwaves’
- Woman’s Hour
- On Biography (audio)
- In Conversation with Dervla Murphy
- Arctic podcast
- Royal Society of Literature lecture on the nature of biography
- What I didn’t say about Chile (read by an actor)
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