Blog To Watch: Orwell Diaries

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  09.04.08 | 11:50 AM ET

imageIn August 1938, George Orwell started keeping a diary—and now, 60 years later, those entries are appearing day by day in a new blog, complete with a Google map to track his movements around England and the world.

Orwell’s Spanish Civil War memoir, Homage to Catalonia, was one of the first books to get me thinking about travel writing, so you can bet I’ll be following along—even on those days when he doesn’t have much to say.

[Via The Book Bench]

Tags: Life of a Travel Writer, Literary Travel

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Ottawa, Canada.


1 Comment for Blog To Watch: Orwell Diaries

Tim Patterson 09.05.08 | 3:16 AM ET

Awesome!  Thanks for the heads-up, Eva.  This is one blog I’ll be sure to bookmark.

A question - which contemporary writer do you guys think is closest to an heir to Orwell?

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