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John Gimlette


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John Gimlette was born in 1963. At seventeen, he crossed the Soviet Union by train and has since travelled to over 60 countries. In 1982, on the eve of the Falklands War, he was working on an estancia in Argentina. He returned to England via Paraguay and Bolivia to read law at Cambridge.

In 1997, he won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize with ‘Pink Pigs in Paraguay’, which was published in The Spectator in May of that year. The following year he won the Wanderlust Travel Writing competition.

He is a regular contributor to a number of British broadsheets, including The Daily Telegraph, Times and The Guardian travel sections. He also contributes to other travel titles, including the Conde Nast Traveller and Wanderlust. His travel photographs have ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 2,775 ratings · 425 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors
Elephant Complex: Travels i...
3.92 avg rating — 738 ratings — published 2015 — 16 editions
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At the Tomb of the Inflatab...
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Wild Coast: Travels on Sout...
3.88 avg rating — 729 ratings — published 2011 — 19 editions
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Theatre of Fish: Travels Th...
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The Gardens of Mars: Madaga...
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Panther Soup: A European Jo...
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“A lie well told, as the Old Singhalese adage goes, is worth a thousand facts.”
― John Gimlette, Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka
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“Having compacted so much noise into the first half of his life, he was now spending the second gathering up the silence.”
― John Gimlette, Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka
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“Someone had shaved the ship's dog to make it look like a lion.”
― John Gimlette, The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story
tags: madagascar, travel
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