Eric Newby
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jul 24, 2008
Benedict Allen follows the travels of quintessential British amateur traveller Eric Newby, author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.
Season 1
Laurie Lee
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jul 31, 2008
Benedict Allen retraces author Laurie Lee's journey across Spain in 1935, which became the basis for Lee's celebrated travelogue As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning.
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Aug 7, 2008
Benedict Allen follows Patrick Leigh Fermor's epic 1931 quest across Europe and tracks down the man himself to discuss the future of travel writing.
