Julian will be appearing at Edinburgh festival this year and Julian will be doing events and radio appearances around the UK for the launch of All at Sea. Review coverage expected following Julian's 2016 win of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
The fourth travel book by Julian Sayarer, winner of the 2016 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year.
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Julian will be appearing at Edinburgh festival this year and Julian will be doing events and radio appearances around the UK for the launch of All at Sea. Review coverage expected following Julian's 2016 win of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
The fourth travel book by Julian Sayarer, winner of the 2016 Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year.
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"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers who will go all the way for a story, and tell it with fire. Sayarer is a marvellous example" HORATIO CLARE
On the small island of Surin, near the naval border of Thailand and Myanmar, an indigenous people known as Moken 'sea gypsies' struggle to maintain the same timeless existence as their ancestors. As real estate developers, oil exploration and industrial tourism reshape the waters they call home, Sayarer receives a mysterious offer from an idealistic Luxembourger determined to tell a tale of the Moken on film, and in search of a writer to detail the efforts of his motley crew. Events unfold in a reality strangely different to that version captured by the lens. In the quest for indigenous wisdom, cameras and tripods clutter bamboo huts, while fishing trips and dives are staged beneath the waves. With the quest for paradise seeming ever more artificial, award-winning author, Julian Sayarer instead begins listening to the stories of Laurie, an old sailor, with a life on the water behind him, and in whose ship the crew sail out into the Andaman Sea.Critic Reviews
“Book of the Month”
On The Road for the Occupy generation' Open Democracy;A brilliantly thoughtful writer' Sara Wheeler
About the Author
JULIAN SAYARER cycled a half dozen times across Europe to his second nation of Turkiye before before breaking a world record for a circumnavigation by bicycle, and going on to write Life Cycles (2014). He is the winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Writing Award for Interstate (2016), an account of hitchhiking through middle America, and is the author of Messengers (2016), All at Sea (2017), Fifty Miles Wide (2020), Ondaatje Prize-longlisted Iberia (2021), and Turkiye (2023). Julian combines a background in political science to create a critically acclaimed travel writing style - politics at roadsides. In this 12mph view of the world in passing, he uses human stories and journeys to document global issues for a broad audience. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, the Guardian, Financial Times, Aeon Magazine, and in numerous cycling publications.
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