Blog To Watch: Orwell Diaries

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

In 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

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Eva Holland is a contributor to the World Hum blog. She is also a contributing editor at the Matador Network and at Not Coming to a Theater Near You, and a regular contributor to the Ottawa Citizen. Based in Ottawa, Canada, she loves to write about travel, history, sports, and culture high or low.

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1 Comment for Blog To Watch: Orwell Diaries

Tim Patterson 09.05.08 | 4:16 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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