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[[:Category:Dervla Murphy|Dervla Murphy]] tells of her Tibetan friends visiting her in remote, rural 1960s Ireland – Murphy's books are as much about the stories of the people she meets on her travels and this is no exception, as she offers her guests space to talk and write about Tibet.
[[:Category:Raja ShahadehShehadeh|Raja ShahadehShehadeh]] writes about driving out of the city with his wife to walk in the countryside, only he lives in Ramallah, Palestine, and their journey to Galilee is disrupted by an Israeli roadblock and a soldier insisting he must search everything.
There are lots of stories here of travelling in Africa, Asia and Latin America, many about poverty and war torn areas, but on a lighter, more entertaining note, I laughed at Tiffany Murray's account of her obsession with New York City's Big Yellow Taxi cabs.
Thank you to Profile Books for sending a copy to the Bookbag.
Oxfam's earlier fundraising collections of short fiction, 4 volumes of Ox Tales, have been reviewed by the Bookbag – see [[Ox-Tales: Water by Oxfam|Ox Tales: Water]] here. Bookbag reviews of other books by Ox Travels contributors include [[Palestinian Walks : Notes from a Vanishing Landscape by Raja ShahadehShehadeh]], Tim Butcher's [[Chasing the Devil by Jim Butcher|Chasing the Devil]], [[Access All Areas by Sara Wheeler|Access All Areas]] and [[The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler|The Magnetic North]] by Sara Wheeler, and [[Cuba: The Island that Dared by Dervla Murphy]].
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