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Philip Marsden

フィリップ・マースデン

Firippu Māsuden

Aliases: Philip Marsden-Smedley

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1961-05-11 （Bristol）
Nationality
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Bristol, England → Cornwall

Career

Occupations
travel writer, novelist
Active Years
1988-2024
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Nominations
Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year shortlist (Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place)

Awards

Somerset Maugham Award
1994
Work: The Crossing Place
Result: 受賞
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
1999
Work: The Spirit-Wrestlers
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Crossing Place

1993 Travel writing

A journey among the Armenians.

Armeniatravelidentity

The Spirit-Wrestlers

1998 Travel writing

A Russian journey.

RussiaspiritDoukhobors

The Main Cages

2002 Novel

Novel set in Cornwall in the mid-1930s.

Cornwallfishing

Bibliography

  • A Far Country: travels in Ethiopia
  • The Crossing Place: a journey among the Armenians
  • The Bronski House: a return to the Borderlands
  • The Spirit-Wrestlers: a Russian journey
  • The Chains of Heaven: An Ethiopian Romance
  • The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy
  • The Levelling Sea
  • Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place
  • The Summer Isles: A Voyage Of The Imagination
  • The Main Cages

Translations by Author

  • Views from Abroad (ed.)
  • Articles of War (ed.)
  • Britain in the Eighties (ed.)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
narrative travel writinghistorical detail
Recurring Motifs
Ethiopiaborderlandsspirit of place

Legacy

Known as an English travel writer focusing on remote regions like Ethiopia and Armenia.

Trivia

  • Grandson of Sir James Granville le Neve King of Campsie, 3rd Baronet.
  • Lives in Cornwall with his wife, writer Charlotte Hobson.