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Welcome to the New Recce
10-18-2012
Welcome to the New Recce
Dear friend of Recce, Thank you very much for your ongoing interest in our online literary travel offerings. I'm very excited to announce that beginning today those offerings will be brought to you on a much more timely basis as a new blog on the redesigned GeoEx website. The Recce blog - www.geoex.com/blog - is launching with a half dozen of our best features from past issues. Going forward, you'll see that while our format has changed, our commitment to bringing you the highest quality content remains the same. Recce will continue to present a robust mix of original essays and tales from acclaimed and up-and-coming writers, exhilarating excerpts from the best new travel books, provocative interviews with travel pioneers, and illuminating portfolios from distinguished photographers. In addition, we'll be expanding our content...
A Conversation with Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron is one of our most masterful and compelling travel writers. In a career that spans 44 years, the British author has written 10 extraordinary travel narratives (as well as 7 novels), each of which weaves history, landscape, and personal portrait into rich tapestries of life in destinations that range from Damascus and Cyprus to Siberia and China. His most recent book, To a Mountain in Tibet, is as learned and evocative as anything he has written before, and is his most personal book to date—which makes it for me an even more satisfying and moving literary journey. I have known Thubron for a decade and a half, and the interview that follows comprises conversations we have had through the years. Don George: How did you get started in travel writing? I know you write fiction as well. Colin Thubron: Well, I thought of myself as a writer from childhood, really. I don't know why, I just love words. And so that came long...
Prambanan in the Moonlight
When the Northern California weather turned warm early last month, stalks of wanderlust began erupting in the garden of my brain. Since I didn't have a Big Trip on the horizon at that time, I found myself rummaging through journals from former Big Trips, to re-embrace some of their heady adventure. In that quest I came across the following remembrance of the Hindu monument of Pambranan, on the Indonesian island of Java; the account seems to capture the quintessential, life-expanding gift of travel—then and now—for me. The Indonesian night was so hot and humid that when you walked, the air seemed to part around you, like a curtain of exquisite filaments. There was more to the night's dense weave, too—the liquid harmonies of an unseen gamelan wrapped around you, and t
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