While our horizons may have drawn in, travel writers have continued to reach out, rediscovering and reinterpreting the world for a new age. The Sherborne Travel Writing Festival was the first travel literature festival to be held in the UK in recent years.

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At its heart was the idea – and the timely theme – of reaching for the horizon.

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Venture on foot, by bicycle, astride an elephant - or even on board the Rolling Stones’ private jet - from Mughal India to modern Istanbul, and from the Bronze Age Aegean to the Battle of Hastings, with the UK’s leading travel writers, historians and broadcasters.

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Join Mevan Babakar, Alexander Christie-Miller, Horatio Clare, Nandini Das, Alan Edwards, Xiaolu Guo, Rosie Goldsmith, Victoria Hislop, Kapka Kassabova, Jonathan Lorie, Ann Morgan, Sophy Roberts, Barnaby Rogerson and Rory MacLean to be transported across the world.

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