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The trip of a lifetime starts here!
This year's program features three exciting travel themes: Dynamic India, Multicultural French Travellers, and Travel on Two Wheels. A line-up of prominent local and international writers, photographers, journalists, winemakers, chefs, comedians, performance poets, bloggers and translators will participate in panels, workshops and special events about travelling that reach beyond the words on the page and challenge us to think differently about travel and tourism in the current climate. So grab your passport and get on board for a weekend of new ways to talk about travel!
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Meet Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet Publications and
indefatigable traveller, writer, speaker, cyclist…
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Find out why Scottish oil rigger Paul Carter flipped the script and rode around Australia on a bio-fuelled motorbike
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Discover a major new voice on France’s literary scene, acclaimed Congolese author of African Psycho and Broken Glass
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Go behind the scenes of France’s most famous Champagne empire with the author of New York Times bestselling biography, The Widow Clicquot
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Sign up for a workshop with intrepid UK cyclist and first time author who cycled back home from Siberia in what Bear Grylls called “an epic journey”
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Slam with one of New Caledonia’s leading poets whose energetic performances combine his ancient Kanak origins and the dynamic new genre of slam poetry
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The Australian Festival of Travel Writing is proud to present an exhibition of photographs from Lonely Planet's Mosaic Competition, launched to celebrate its 100 millionth book. Forty-five of the 130,000 entries will be displayed for the first time on the walls of the Wheeler Centre from Friday 29 - Sunday 31 October. Sreesailam Pasupula's winning photo captures "Glamorous girls parading on a performance stage at Pushkar ka Mela, the world's largest camel fair in India".
Click here to see the whole of the amazing mosaic.
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