For more than forty years I have collected & read travel books I marked passages that enthused me & so gathered a library that was annotated by triangular corner-folds & barely decipherable jottings This was my own inadvertent wool-gathering Scraps of Wool is a celebration of travel writing bringing together in a single volume passages that have enthralled generations of readers encouraged them to dream of exploration & set off on journeys of their own Compiled by Bill Colegrave its excerpts have been selected by today's travel writers & journalists who have revealed the books that influenced them Dervla Murphy Tony Wheeler Rory Mac Lean Pico Iyer Jan Morris Colin Thubron Artemis Cooper Sara Wheeler Alexander Frater & many more Each of these scraps is a document of the writer's passion for place
- thick equatorial jungle the soft ergs of the Sahara Patagonian steppe
- & each story each memory will transport you to a different corner of the globe & maybe even inspire you to plan your own great adventure