Through the Looking Glasses, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘A great way to put your own eyewear to use’
The local author turns his lens to the instruments that help him and an estimated four billion others navigate the world
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Travis Elborough: Maps for the mind during lockdown
The acclaimed local author on why we now need maps more than ever, ‘even if the routes and roads they contain are never taken’
Atlas of Vanishing Places, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘For the budding explorer and armchair traveller alike’
The Hackney author’s companion book to last year’s Atlas of the Unexpected explores worlds ‘savaged by nature, humanity or both’
Bus Fare: Writings on London’s Most Loved Means of Transport, book review: ‘Enjoyable hop-on hop-off reading’
Journey through a rich collection of facts, fiction and memoires that chronicle the beguiling history of buses
Atlas of the Unexpected, Travis Elborough, book review: ‘Bite-sized chunks on weird and wondrous places’
Floating villages, a chess-inspired city and a tiny Canadian island all feature in this ‘enchanting’ travel compendium
Hackney among ten contenders for first ever walking neighbourhood award
Local rambler covers the borough’s 58 parks in one day to celebrate nomination
Atlas of Improbable Places – book review: ‘Informative and enthusiastic, scholarly and amusing’
Stoke Newington author Travis Elborough describes some of the strangest and most historically-obscure locations across the globe in his latest book
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – book review
Historian Travis Elborough charts the fascinating history of parks, those little pockets of nature most of us take for granted
A Walk in the Park: The Life and Times of a People’s Institution – book review
Historian Travis Elborough charts the fascinating history of parks, those little pockets of nature most of us take for granted
A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters – review
Samuel Pepys, Herman Melville and Christopher Columbus among the authors of a fascinating compendium of travel writing, co-compiled by Travis Elborough
A Traveller’s Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters – review
Samuel Pepys, Herman Melville and Christopher Columbus among the authors of a fascinating compendium of travel writing, co-compiled by Travis Elborough
Historian looks into the 'tamed wildness' of Victoria Park
Travis Elborough is exploring Victoria Park’s links with sport, colonialism and protest as research for a book on the history of public parks
How We Used to Live: a love letter to London
Author Travis Elborough from Stoke Newington helped to write this poetic documentary looking at London past and present
‘Odd’ diarists featured in Travis Elborough’s book A London Year
Stoke Newington author’s project provides portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to present day
Connecting Nothing with Something – review
Briny collection featuring Salena Godden is latest title from Gary Budden and Kit Caless’ ‘site specific’ Influx Press
London Bridge in America by Travis Elborough – review
Book on the old London Bridge blows urban myths about its 1960s sale out of the water