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John Gimlette Biography

John Gimlette is an English author of travel literature. He has published five books to date; Panther Soup: A European Journey in War and Peace, Theatre Of Fish: Travels through Newfoundland and Labrador, At The Tomb Of The Inflatable Pig: Travels through Paraguay , Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge and Elephant Complex.

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This terrible frustration that we so often feel in the West in not being able to articulate and express ourselves.

Able, Articulate, Frustration, Terrible, West

I realize how much [Mark] Twain fabricated things. I like it very much, but it's only half true. And it shows what he was trying to do, which was just entertain. Which he does very successfully, though the humor is almost dated now.

Doe, Half, Things, True, Trying

The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.

Expect, Increase, Like, Noise, Portugal, Wish

I am always surprised when people do get upset. Perhaps its just the nutty people who write to newspapers who get upset.

Newspapers, Nutty, People, Perhaps, Upset, Writing

The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer.

Glasses, Organization, People, Progress, Thing, Years

There is a whole genre of funny travel writers - that's very popular. There's Bill Bryson and people who follow that route and sell travel writing through making people laugh. It's a very difficult group to take. The line between comedy and mockery is sometimes a bit thin.

Laughing, People, Route, Whole, Writing

My parents don't think about Europe at all. The Continent is somewhere else. And they call it the Continent - to reflect, they are no real part of it.

Europe, Real, Reflect, Thinking

People my age and younger do think much more towards Europe. We have to fill the gap sometime - we can't think we are an empire any longer after all.

Empire, Europe, Fill, People, Thinking, Younger

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

Hear, Ordinary, Pay, People, Phones, Views

One does have to learn to travel with a degree of humility and that reflected in writing and personality.

Degree, Humility, Personality, Travel, Writing

I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

Book, People, Writing

I am certainly very pro-Europe.

Europe

I am sure you have met diplomats; they probably travel far less than you do. Okay, they get to know a place very intensely - sometimes only the capitol city.

Cities, City, Diplomats, Know, Sometimes

Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

Category, Different, Macabre, People, War

I find the public reaction to writing - it's fascinating in this modern age. Of course people are able to interact with me and email me, and I get quite a few I suppose.

Age, Modern, People, Quite, Writing

I'd like to write fiction. Perhaps at some stage.

Fiction, Like, Perhaps, Stage, Writing

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

Country, Eritrea, Like, Traveling, World

I often think I would like to come even closer to home and write about somewhere like Wales, for example - which we in England tend to be a little snooty about. That's where the coal comes from and that sort of thing.

Home, Snooty, Thinking, Wales, Writing

I wonder if this reason is partly geographical, that talk radio is so much more successful in North America than in Britain? People who are very remote - I'm thinking of Newfoundland - feel very connected though the radio.

America, Successful, Thinking, Though

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some call it creative nonfiction.

Element, Feel Better, Fictional, Strong, Style, Writing

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