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B-Sides, EPs and Rarities
On the eve of the launch of his new travel book and album Seasons of Change, Tom Kitching, like the rest of us, was polexaxed by pandemic and lockdown. Any further thoughts of travel and gigging were forcibly banished.
Fortunately for Tom, he had done more than his fair share of travel over the previous twenty years and alone in a Manchester flat with a dusty passport and even dustier fiddle case, he began a mental rerun of his old adventures. Piles of old travel diaries and caches of photographs became a joyful escape, a change to travel the world again without even leaving the room.
This book is the result - a collection of traveller’s tales from the not-so-distant past, with an itinerary spanning the Welsh valleys to the Andes and back via Chinese coalfields and the Bridgewater Canal. Through 15 snapshots of the globe in all its beautiful, messy glory, it showcases Tom’s uncanny ability to be there at the quiet, unfashionable end of eras, when the world is about to turn again and change forever.
Looking beyond lockdown, let’s hope the world is still as wild and welcoming as it was in the entertaining and life-affirming days chronicled herein.
Fortunately for Tom, he had done more than his fair share of travel over the previous twenty years and alone in a Manchester flat with a dusty passport and even dustier fiddle case, he began a mental rerun of his old adventures. Piles of old travel diaries and caches of photographs became a joyful escape, a change to travel the world again without even leaving the room.
This book is the result - a collection of traveller’s tales from the not-so-distant past, with an itinerary spanning the Welsh valleys to the Andes and back via Chinese coalfields and the Bridgewater Canal. Through 15 snapshots of the globe in all its beautiful, messy glory, it showcases Tom’s uncanny ability to be there at the quiet, unfashionable end of eras, when the world is about to turn again and change forever.
Looking beyond lockdown, let’s hope the world is still as wild and welcoming as it was in the entertaining and life-affirming days chronicled herein.
220 pages, Paperback
Published October 1, 2021
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March 9, 2022
I love Tom's way of writing. He gives you the picture, the feel of the place, the people, with an imaginative use of words without ever coming across as "too clever". Consequently I can read about subjects that wouldn't normally interest me and yet I am rewarded. So, never mind the subject matter, just enjoy the reading.
April 13, 2022
Very entertaining and widely different collection of places. The author's dry humour shines through and gives vivid portraits. Even though I am not really interested in trains, I am swept along by his enthusiasm for the topic.
August 14, 2024
Tom writes the same way he speaks, which made me smile. This collection of travel writings is quite unique, I doubt anybody else would have visited the same combination of places.
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