Award winners Michael Palin and Levison Wood |
As March
approaches and we start to put winter behind us, our thoughts turn to holidays
and travel adventures. Are you possessed of a wanderlust or more of an armchair
traveller? Regardless there’s bound to be something to tempt you among the
winners of the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2016.
Edward Stanford Award for
Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing - Winner,
Michael Palin.
A
worthy winner of this award, Palin’s first travel writing adventure kicked off
in the autumn of 1988 when, in Phileas Fogg style he began his journey “Around
the World in 80 Days”. The BBC broadcasted his adventures in 1989 and that was
also the year the book of the series was first published. Since then he has
gone on to write ‘Pole to Pole’, ‘Full Circle’, ‘Hemingway Adventure’,
‘Sahara’, ‘Himalaya’, ‘New Europe’ and ‘Brazil’
Levison Wood – Walking the Himalayas
Levison Wood's most
challenging expedition yet begins along the Silk Road route of Afghanistan and
travels through five countries. Following in the footsteps of the great
explorers, Levison walks the entire length of the Himalayas in an adventure of
survival and endurance.
Other award winners include:
Julian Sayarer – Interstate: Hitchhiking
Through the State of a Nation
Recruited
to work on a documentary project, Julian goes to New York convinced he has hit the
big time at last. Finding the project cancelled, he wanders the city streets
and, with nowhere else to go, decides to set out hitchhiking for San Francisco.
Fiction (with a sense of place)
In Canada in 1991, ten year old Marie and
her mother invite a guest into their home. She is Ai-Ming, a young woman from
China who has fled following the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square incident. As
her relationship with Marie deepens she tells the story of her family in
revolutionary China.
Lucy Letherland, Rachel Williams and Emily
Hawkins – Atlas of Animal Adventures
This title collects together nature's most
unmissable events from between the two poles, including epic migrations,
extraordinary behaviours, and Herculean habits. Find hundreds of things to spot
and learn new facts about every animal.
Malachy Tallack and Kate Scott – The
Undiscovered Islands: an archipelago of myths and mysteries, phantoms and
fakes
Gathered
in the book are two dozen islands once believed to be real but no longer on the
map. These are the products of imagination, deception and simple human error.
They are phantoms and fakes: an archipelago of ex-isles and forgotten lands.
Tessa Kiros – Provence to Pondicherry:
recipes from France and faraway
Renowned for her exquisite food and travel
books, Tessa Kiros takes us on a fascinating journey across the globe to
explore French culinary influences in far-flung destinations
James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti – Where
the Animals Go: tracking wildlife with technology in 50 maps and graphics
For
thousands of years, tracking animals meant following footprints. Now
satellites, drones, camera traps, cellphone networks, apps and accelerometers
allow us to see the natural world like never before. Geographer James Cheshire
and designer Oliver Uberti take you to the forefront of this animal-tracking
revolution.
Gwobrau Ysgrifennu
Teithio Edward Stanford 2016
Enillwyr Michael Palin a Levison Wood |
Wrth i Fawrth ddynesu ac rydym yn dechrau rhoi’r gaeaf
i’r neilltu, mae’n meddyliau yn troi at wyliau ac anturiaeth teithio. Oes gyda
chi awydd crwydro neu ydych chi’n fwy o deithiwr cadair freichiau? Pa un bynnag
mae’n siŵr bod rhywbeth i’ch temtio ymhlith enillwyr Gwobrau Ysgrifennu Teithio
Edward Stanford 2016.
Gwobr Edward Stanford am Gyfraniad Neilltuol i Ysgrifennu Teithio
Enillydd, Michael Palin.
Enillydd teilwng y wobr, dechreuodd
antur ysgrifennu teithio cyntaf yn hydref 1988 pan, yn ôl troed Phileas Fogg fe
ddechreuodd ei daith “O Gwmpas y Byd mewn 80 diwrnod”. Darlledodd y BBC ei
anturiaethau yn 1989 a dyna hefyd flwyddyn cyhoeddi llyfr y gyfres am y tro
cyntaf. Ers hynny aeth ymlaen i ysgrifennu ‘Pole to Pole’, ‘Full Circle’,
‘Hemingway Adventure’, ‘Sahara’, ‘Himalaya’, ‘New Europe’ a ‘Brazil’
Levison Wood – Walking the Himalayas
Mae taith fwyaf heriol Levison Wood hyd yn
hyn yn dechrau ar hyd ffordd yr Heol Sidan yn Affganistan ac yn teithio trwy
bump o wledydd. Yn dilyn olion troed y fforwyr mawr, mae Levison yn cerdded hyd
yr Himalayas mewn antur o oroesi a gwydnwch.
Llyfr Teithio’r Flwyddyn
Julian Sayarer – Interstate: Hitchhiking Through the State of a Nation
Ar ôl cael ei recriwtio i weithio ar brosiect ddogfen,
mae Julian yn mynd i Efrog Newydd yn siŵr ei fod wedi cyrraedd y brig o’r
diwedd. Mae’n deall bod y prosiect wedi
ei ddileu ac yn crwydro strydoedd y ddinas a, heb unrhyw le i fynd, mae’n
penderfynu ffawdheglu i San Francisco.
Madeleine Thien – Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Yng Nghanada yn 1991, mae Marie 10 mlwydd oed a’i mam yn gwahodd gwestai
i’w cartref. Dyma Ai-Ming, menyw ifanc o Tsieina sydd wedi dianc ar ôl
digwyddiadau Sgwâr Tiananmen. Wrth i’w
pherthynas â Marie ddatblygu mae’n dweud hanes eu bywyd yn Tsieina’r chwyldro.
Lucy Letherland, Rachel Williams ac Emily Hawkins – Atlas of Animal
Adventures
Mae’r llyfr hwn yn casglu at ei gilydd holl ddigwyddiadau
mwyaf trawiadol natur rhwng y ddau begwn, gan gynnwys ymfudiadau, ymddygiad
eithriadol ac arferion gorchestol. Cewch hyd i gannoedd i’w gweld a dysgwch
ffeithiau newydd am bob anifail.
Malachy Tallack a Kate Scott – The Undiscovered Islands: an archipelago of
myths and mysteries, phantoms and fakes.
Ynghyd yn y llyfr mae dau ddwsin o
ynysoedd y credwyd ar un adeg eu bod yn real ond nad sydd bellach ar y map.
Mae’r rhain yn ffrwyth dychymig, twyll a chamgymeriad. Maen nhw’n rhithiol ac yn ffug: ynysfor o
gyn-ynysoedd a gwledydd coll.
Tessa Kiros – Provence to Pondicherry: recipes from France and faraway
Yn adnabyddus am ei bwyd coeth a’i llyfrau teithio, mae, Tessa Kiros yn
mynd â ni ar daith gyfareddol ar draws y byd i chwilio am ddylanwadau Ffrenig
ar fwyd mewn gwledydd pell.
James Cheshire ac Oliver Uberti – Where the Animals Go: tracking wildlife
with technology in 50 maps and graphics.
Am filoedd o flynyddoedd roedd dilyn anifeiliaid
yn golygu dilyn olion traed. Nawr mae
lloerennau, dronau, baglau camera, rhwydweithiau ffonau symudol, apps a
mesuryddion cyflymu yn caniatáu i ni weld y byd naturiol fel na welsom erioed
o’r blaen. Mae’r daearyddwr James
Cheshire a’r cynllunydd Oliver Uberti yn mynd â chi i reng flaen y chwyldro yma
mewn dilyn anifeiliaid