Gatewood, Oakland I went because: Patagonia has some of the most spectacular mountain hiking in the world. Don't miss: Hiking to the vista point of the Towers in Parque Nacional Torres Del Paine, Chile. It's 11.2 miles round trip, but worth it. Don't...

She was much more drawn to individual mythologies, to Kleinian and Freudian explanations, and to fairy tales, which have a more precise and personal narrative. I have a feeling that there’s a sort of half-joke at Bruce Chatwin’s expense in that choice...

It also takes time to celebrate some of the most prestigious writers to be published in the magazine over the years, including Ian Fleming, Martin Amis, Bruce Chatwin, Jilly Cooper, Zoe Heller, James Fox and Nicholas Tomalin. The highlight of the show...

Clapp does not herself explore the life beyond Carter's own telling of it – she leaves that task to the full-length biography currently in preparation from Edmund Gordon. This is a much shorter, simpler book than Clapp's previous memoir, about Bruce...

Isn't that the best kind of life imaginable? She did not try to be an honorary man in a field still woefully dominated by that species. "There are few sorrows," she wrote, "through which a new dress or hat will not send a little gleam of pleasure,...

This was my third time in the great northern seat of culture, the original UNESCO City of Literature, home to Stevenson, Muriel Spark, Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh's his loo-diving trainspotters. Before his Patagonia days traveler extraordinaire Bruce...