Author: William Atkins

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Wainwright Prize In this journey across England's most forbidding and mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader ...

A luminous exploration of exile - the people who have experienced it, and the places they inhabit - from the award-winning travel writer and author...

WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2019One third of the earth's land surface is desert, much of it desolate and inhospitable. What ...

For all the desert''s dreamlike beauty, to travel here was not just to pitch yourself into oblivion: it was to grind away at yourself until nothing...