Books by Clare Hammond
“These shadow tracks are railway lines that Than Shwe’s military junta built using forced labour, under laws created by the British colonial system. He was dictator there from 1992 to 2011. So these railways were constructed with all the brutality and suffering that you can imagine, and they don’t really appear on maps. Clare Hammond discovers the whole network for herself. Some lines are semi-abandoned. So this is, in a way, a classic epic journey, as she covers 3000-miles of journeys into quite remote areas, from the tropical south to the mountain towns on the border with China.” Read more...
Tom Parfitt, Journalist
Interviews where books by Clare Hammond were recommended
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Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China
by Noo Saro-Wiwa -
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On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar
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Slow Trains to Istanbul: ...And Back: A 4,570-Mile Adventure on 55 Rides
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The Place of Tides
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Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain’s ancient paths
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Wild Twin
by Jeff Young
The Best Travel Books of 2025, recommended by Tom Parfitt
The Best Travel Books of 2025, recommended by Tom Parfitt
Every year, the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards highlight the very best of recently published place writing, and select their ‘travel book of the year.’ We asked judge Tom Parfitt, the author and former foreign correspondent, to talk us through the six travel books that made the 2025 shortlist.
