Isolarion Gerard Fanning and about the activities and

and about the activities and institutions that shape an understanding of what literature is and what it can do

his wry gaze and gentle tone conjure an art

Excerpts from Beirut shi Mahal

and part travelogue—uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist’s own concerns as she comes of age as an artist

I lit a candle in the shoeing shed

Isolarion Gerard Fanning and about the activities andA travel writing classic, with a new preface by the author and an afterword by Geoff Dyer. Can you be a pilgrim without leaving your life behind? How does it feel to approach everyday places with the same reverence as grand cathedrals? And how are we changed by even the smallest of journeys? James Attlee asks these questions and more in his thoughtful, streetwise, and personal account of a pilgrimage to a place he thought he already knew: the Cowley