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In the footsteps of . . .

From Ernest Hemingway to WH Auden, from Iceland to the Pyrenees — a series of travel features that set out on a trail of rediscovery

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Across ‘Saxon Switzerland’ in the footsteps of Caspar David Friedrich
As Germany celebrates the artist’s 250th birthday, Oliver Smith walks the ‘Painters’ Way’ through the sandstone hills that inspired him
An Antarctic voyage — on the trail of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
A century on from ‘the best travel adventure book ever written’, a new cruise plies the route of bygone explorers
Across the Yorkshire Dales in the footsteps of JB Priestley
The past chimes with the present on a walk through the landscape that, the author wrote in 1934, offers ‘everything a man can possibly want’
Across Scotland in the footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie
Defeated at Culloden, the prince set out on the run across hills, lochs and islands
Hemingway’s Paris still pulls at the heartstrings
A century on from the American writer’s ‘very poor and very happy’ days in the city, Stanley Stewart goes in search of his favourite haunts
Across the Pyrenees in the footsteps of a wartime heroine
In 1944, a 21-year-old secret agent codenamed ‘Colette’ led downed Allied pilots over the mountains to safety. Anne Sebba retraces her route

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Across Iceland, in the footsteps of WH Auden
With 1930s Europe in turmoil, Auden and his friend Louis MacNeice found escape in a journey to the strange, spectacular Westfjords