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Christian Drury

@cjdrury.bsky.social
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Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: www.christiandrury.co.uk

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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A lovely day for the cricket at CLS
The Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street in sunshine with England playing Sri Lanka
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you're looking for some experimental non-fiction, this is brilliant - a group biography of an XI of seemingly unconnected cricketers (cricket people?), which also reflects on the methodological challenges of historical research
A copy of a book on a wooden desk. The book is ELEVEN: WE BURN THEM IN THE SUN by Christian Ryan and the cover shows a black and white photograph of a cricket match in a sun shower, with the ball in the photograph picked out in yellow to match the title and author name. In the photograph, a batsman cuts the ball towards third man, where the photograph is taken from and the non-striker is starting to run.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The Roads That Remain" project at Univ of Tromsø has advertisements out for a postdoc on Arctic infrastructure & GIS www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and a PhD fellow on Arctic Mobility, Landscape and Spatial Justice www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #envhum
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
A serious outbreak of Metro Bank fever in Darlington
A cricket match at Darlington - a club ground with a large pavilion and fans sat all round the boundary
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Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
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Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is now part of a special issue - Touristed: European Travellers, Host Communities, and the Production of Local Culture (1800-1940) - alongside a really interesting selection of articles, guest edited by Talitha Ilacqua: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjth20/1...
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Journal of Tourism History
Touristed: European Travellers, Host Communities, and the Production of Local Culture (1800-1940); Guest Edited by Talitha Ilacqua. Volume 18, Issue 2 of Journal of Tourism History
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Special issue of Art History journal edited by Mark Cheetham & @issygapp.bsky.social looks great: Crossings in Polar Art History: South and North, Historical and Contemporary academic.oup.com/arthistory/i...
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Volume 49 Issue 2 | Art History | Oxford Academic
Art History is an international, refereed journal that promotes world-class art-historical scholarship from across the globe.
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
REMINDER: Call for Papers: Histories of Anti-Tourism Deadline for submission: August 3, 2026 Where and when do we see anti-tourism emerge in the historical record? What forms does it take? niche-canada.org/2026/06/24/c... #envhist #envhum #tourism
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Call for Papers: Histories of Anti-Tourism
We are looking for scholars already working on this topic, as well as those who may have encountered anti-touristic attitudes, conflicts, or forms of resistance in their research without treating them...
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is a great selection of Frank Hurley's photographs from the Endurance expedition: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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‘He’d lie down in front of the moving ship’: a fresh look at Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition
Shipwrecks, ice football and igloos for dogs … the digitisation of Frank Hurley’s photographs shows the heroic trek more clearly – and unlocks some remarkable new details
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Recently back from sunny Denmark. None of my edgy pictures came out very well, so here's Nyhavn...
The row of different coloured houses along the water on Nyhavn in Copenhagen
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
An old piece, but this Gideon Haigh article works well as a tribute to Sobers, Caribbean icon and "individual world player": www.espncricinfo.com/story/gideon...
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Man and superman
Off the field he may have been an awkward hero, on it Garry Sobers was "evolution's ultimate specimen"
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
International rain-watching at the Riverside 🌧️
A cricket ground with covers and floodlights on
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The last of the light over our (very warm) cricket match at Maiden Castle tonight
A cricket field with the sun dropping behind the wooded hill beyond the boundary
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Midsummer sunshine after the rain in Durham ☀️
Durham cathedral and the River Wear in evening sunshine
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This looks like an amazing PhD opportunity! fully funded "Women Walkers in Latin America" #skystorians www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRO242/p...
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PhD Studentship: Latin American Studies: Women Walkers in Latin America at University of Bristol
Discover a PhD Studentship: Latin American Studies: Women Walkers in Latin America on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.
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Leif Hammer @leifhammer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Wrote a blog post about my great-grandfather’s archive: open.substack.com/pub/leifhamm...
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Played my first game of cricket since 2019 (!) today at a lovely ground in Newcastle. We lost, but I got a couple of wickets (and a very slow 5) 🏏
Heaton Sports Ground. There are people playing cricket with a church tower rising above a line of trees at the edge of the field
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This exquisite drawing of a floating iceberg, drawn aboard a schooner in the North Atlantic in the summer of 1859 by Frederic Edwin Church, who was born on this day (4 May) in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1826 🗃️
A drawing of a massive white iceberg on a dark blue-grey sea. The drawing's underpainting layers are showing at top and bottom.
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
At the Riverside. Promising England hopeful Ben McKinney has just been knocked over by promising England hopeful James Anderson
Cricket being played at the Riverside ground in Chester-le-Street
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is a nice piece on The Parks (one of my favourite places to watch cricket) and the history of university cricket more generally www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026...
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Oxford University’s Parks cricket ground fights for relevance
First-class cricket is a thing of the past at a venue once graced by future England captains plus Imran Khan
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Spring on the Wear 🌿
Durham Cathedral and the River Wear with trees coming into leaf and blue sky
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Anu Lahtinen @anulah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
PostDoc position in the project “A Digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950” www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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Postdoctoral position in digital humanities - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in digital humanities , Department of ALM, Uppsala University
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Call for Papers – Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment 12-13 November 2026 Geneva (Switzerland) Proposal Deadline: 30 April 2026 "Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments." niche-canada.org/2026/03/30/c... #envhist
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Call for Papers - Mountains, Danger, and Endangerment
Danger and endangerment have long been central to the experiences, knowledges, and governance of mountain environments.
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Getting ready for the new season
The cover of THE MCC CRICKET COACHING BOOK. Half the cover is decorated in the MCC's red and yellow stripes
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 23/03/2026
We're hiring! 🌿 The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details. #envhist #envhum
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026
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Lene Liebe Delsett @leneliebedelsett.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Published book🥳Janicke Kaasa, Ulrike Spring and I edited the volume Collecting the North in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series Arctic Humanities. It examines natural and human-made objects from 18th-20th century, their relationship to Nordic countries and European Arctic. brill.com/display/titl... 🧪
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The End of Sport @endofsportpod.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Cricket and the India-Pakistan Rivalry @karachikhatmal.bsky.social joins to talk CRICKET, including the sport's colonial history and recent events in the world's most heated rivalry. We had A LOT of fun with this one, with something for novices and experts alike. open.spotify.com/episode/3SZ4...
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Peter R. Martin @peterrmartin.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This looks ace! "As the focus intensifies once more on the Arctic, it’s important to remember there isn’t one history, there are many histories. People have long moved in all directions, from all places." Congrats @issygapp.bsky.social and #MarkCheetham! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Arctic Fever: new exhibit finds 19th-century parallels to Trump’s Greenland obsession
As far back as 1867, White House officials have viewed Greenland, and Iceland, as having immense strategic value
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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
So pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded PhD opportunity co-supervised with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG): "Collaborative Research as Pedagogical Method: Reinterpreting Photographic Collections at the RGS-IBG" Deadline: 30 April. Full details here: lnkd.in/euQvMmrR
The walls of Katsema, Nigeria, 1930. Photo by Elizabeth Wilhelmina Ness/Royal Geographical Society
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Our 1st #envhum #book talk of 2026 is on Monday, 19 Jan, 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT. Join us to hear Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social discuss her book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. All are welcome! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
Isabelle Gapp, A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. Cover of book with northern lights over arctic scene on right.
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"For most of its residents, this is not a talking point or a piece of content from which they can move on or swipe away. It is existential": www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘Are they going to bring their violence here?’: Fear – but little preparation – as threat of invasion looms over Greenland
Ahead of high-stakes talks, people tell of alarm, thoughts of fleeing and lack of information on what to do if US invades
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I have a new article out in the Journal of Tourism History, looking at how travel guides, infrastructure and photography shaped tourism in Norway. What and who did travel guides depict, in text and photographs, and how? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The abstract of an article titled "'The land of the glorious fjords... is so easily accessible': Infrastructure and Identity in Travel Guides to Norway, 1870-1920".

The abstract reads: As Norway became an increasingly popular destination in the latter half of the nineteenth century, British travellers turned to guidebooks to structure their travel. Guidebooks to Norway were published in international series by John Murray, Thomas Cook and Baedeker, but also by local travel agents such as Thomas Bennett. Norway seemed to offer an escape from the urban and industrial, yet travellers relied on modern networks of transport and infrastructure. The 1916 guide, Sunlit Norway, was published by the Bergen Steamship Line and the Norwegian State Railways. Visual and textual depictions of infrastructure are prominent and this involvement of transport companies also suggests that the use of certain forms of infrastructure was not simply assumed but actively encouraged. Considering guidebooks as a form of travel writing shows how this travel was fundamentally transnational and highlights the involvement of local people in tourist practices. The presence or absence - of local people in travel guides provides insight into the impact of tourism on local communities. It also complicates the representations of Norway found in travelogues and travel guides in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reemphasising the modern and alternative ideas of the nation.
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This year's Borders and Crossings conference - "New Francophone and Anglophone cross-perspectives on travel writing" - is in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence in September (which sounds very pleasant). CfP deadline: 15th February www.crlv.org/actualites/a...
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Appel: Aix, 16-18 septembre 2026, "Perspectives croisées francophones et anglophones sur les recherches viatiques"  | CRLV / Astrolabe
See English version below Appel à communications « Nouvelles perspectives croisées francophones et anglophones sur les recherches viatiques »   Seuils et Traverses Centre de Recherches sur la Littérat...
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Winter afternoon in Oxford
A view across a road to buildings with blue sky and a winter daytime moon beyond
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Merry Christmas! 🎄 This year's very on-brand present:
The cover of Hans Christian Erlandsen's KALDE KYSTER, UKJENT LAND: DEN NORSKE POLARHISTORIEN, with a black and white photograph of an icy landscape with a Lone figure facing away from the camera
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DAISY CUTTER @daisycutterzine.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
people get really, really weird about jofra archer's gold chain. why does a piece of jewellery get them so rattled? a material culture analysis via gold chains in hip-hop style 👇 daisycutterzine.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i...
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Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com · 22/12/2025
Have you listened to the new mountains podcast yet? Put on by @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social @jonwestaway.bsky.social and @profpitches.bsky.social, the "Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures" podcast has published its first episode. Also, follow the podcast on Bluesky: @futuremountain.bsky.social .
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A New Mountains Podcast: 'Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures' | Jeremy Bassetti
Listen to the new mountain podcast coming out of the University of St Andrews
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
In looking for something positive to read about the Ashes, I discovered this Mike Selvey piece in the LRB from 1987. The main concerns: the amount of one day cricket being played and the schedule of the County Championship... www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
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Mike Selvey · Diary: Jetlagged Cricketers
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Francis Taylor @frankietaylor317.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
It's been a pleasure being on the great organising team at York and Northumbria for next year's NEHN meeting - a collaborative worksop on the many histories of 'unwanted life'. Do see the CFP below, and send in a submission if it appeals!
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
A wintery Wear in Durham
The river Wear in bright winter sun with mist over the water
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
This looks like a great opportunity for people interested in working with the Alpine Club collections 🏔️
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Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Hello! Here is my critical microhistory of modern Arctic exploration. You can now pre-order a paperback copy for $32 CDN during @ubcpress.bsky.social’s winter sale. Also available in hardcover, ebook and PDF! ❄️❄️❄️ www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
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A Cold Colonialism
A Cold Colonialism - Modern Exploration and the Canadian North; A Cold Colonialism reframes exploration as a modern enterprise – one through which southern Canadians and Americans sought to exert cont...
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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍 📜
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Some new (to me) Nordic travel writing: William Sansom's THE ICICLE AND THE SUN (1958)
The front pages of William Sansom's THE ICICLE AND THE SUN (1958), including a map of Scandinavia with the sea in green and land in white
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Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!
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Durham University Library @dulib.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
At the moment, you can visit the exhibition "Away From Home: The Untold Stories of Women Football Fans" at Maiden Castle! ⚽ Throughout history, women fans have always attended football matches. Usually, their stories get lost in the crowd, but this exhibition gives them a voice 📣
Graphic which reads "Away From Home: The Untold Stories of Women Football Fans".
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A wintery Durham from the train ❄️
Durham Cathedral with snowy roofs in front of it
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Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Some of the installations at Lumiere in Durham. A botanical feel this year - rhizomes, flowers and harvests 🍄
A network of interconnecting green threads lit upA field of large, colourful flower sculptures in front of the Cathedral Lots of floating paper lanterns, lit from inside, in the Cathedral cloistersA projection of trees against a row of houses
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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Academic books don't often have covers worth revealing, but this one is pretty good. Samia Ounoughi & I have been working on this for about 100 years, but we've just sent the final proofs, so here's the cover & contents. Writing on the Move, due out from Berghahn early 2026. #travelwriting studies
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