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No Particular Place to Go: Acclaimed travel writers examine four great works of British travel literature. 1/4. William Dalrymple pays homage to Fanny Parkes.

No Particular Place to Go

A series of radio essays in which acclaimed travel writers examine four great works of British travel literature, books that changed the way we saw the world and the art of writing about it.

1/4. William Dalrymple pays homage to Fanny Parkes, author of A Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, an 18th century chronicle of her travels in India. Dalrymple considers Parkes' extraordinary achievement in bringing a 'true picture of early colonial India' to life.

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Mon 3 Dec 2007 23:00

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