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JOURNEYS

The perfect quiz for the armchair traveller: test your knowledge of writing about journeys great and small, near and far. All the books can be found on enCompass.

 

Question 1.
Which chef-cum-crime writer wrote A Cook's Tour, a culinary journey around the world which saw him sampling all manner of weird and wonderful cuisine?

Gordon Ramsay

Patrick Leigh Fermor

Rowley Leigh

Anthony Bourdain
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Question 2.
What's the sub-title of William Dalrymple's book From the Holy Mountain, about his travels from Turkey through Syria, Lebanon and Israel, following in the footsteps of a monk from the sixth century AD?

A Journey in the Shadow of a Monk from the Sixth Century AD

A Journey in the Shadow of Ancient Ruins

A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium

A Journey in the Shadow of a War Zone
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Question 3.
Salman Rushdie's book The Jaguar Smile was written after his 1986 travels in which country?

Nicaragua

Cuba

Ivory Coast

Thailand
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Question 4.
Inspired by a John Cheever short story called 'The Swimmer', Roger Deakin set out in 1996 to swim through the British Isles. What was the title of his book about the journey? 

Swimmer

Travels With My Trunks

Waterlog

Watercourse
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Question 5.
Which winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature wrote Among the Believers: an Islamist Journey, detailing his travels through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia?

V.S Naipaul

J.M. Coetzee

Gao Xingjian

Derek Walcott
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Question 6.
What birds did William Fiennes follow in their annual migration from Texas to the Canadian Arctic?

The Black-Headed Gulls

The Snow Geese

The Peripatetic Plovers

The Muscovy Ducks
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Question 7.
A drunken bet led to Tony Hawks pulling off a surprise travel bestseller in 1998. What kitchen appliance did someone bet him he couldn't hitchhike Round Ireland With?

A Washing Machine

A Cooker

A Fridge

A Dishwasher
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Question 8.
Complete the title of Jan Morris's classic Italian travel book...

Trieste and the Meaning of Something

Trieste and the Meaning of Nothing

Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere

Trieste and the Meaning of Life
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Question 9.
When Jason Webster's girlfriend dumped him he went to Spain on a journey in search of Duende, the intense emotional state so intrinsic to which kind of dance? 

Flamenco

Tango

Salsa

Foxtrot
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Question 10.
In which chilly region did novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron find himself in his 1999 travelogue?

In Patagonia

In Siberia

In the Alaskan Wilderness

In a Fridge Going Round Ireland
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