Granta has long been known for the quality of its travel writing, stretching from description of unfamiliar territory in the 1980s to complex, personal travel in the mid 1990s, to new discoveries with modern writers.
JONATHAN RABAN'S writing has won many prizes including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Heinemann Award, and the Thomas Cook Award. He is the author, most recently, of Driving Home: An American Scrapbook (2010). He lives in Seattle. LIZ JOBEY was the Deputy Editor of Granta 1998-2002 and before that was Editor of the Independent on Sunday Review and Literary Editor of the Guardian. She is the editor of Are We Related?: The New Granta Book of the Family and currently works as a freelance journalist.