White Sands

Geoff Dyer’s White Sands is a travel book that blends genres to ask why we travel. From a trip to The Lightning Field in New Mexico to追 Gauguin’s ghost in French Polynesia, it offers a creative exploration of travel’s motives. Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year, the book couples episodic, wide-ranging narrative with a smart, cantankerous wit. Dyer, one of Britain’s most original writers, crafts a work that appeals to armchair travellers and procrastinating philosophers alike.

The collection melds travel writing with essay, criticism and fiction, delivering humor, insight and restless curiosity across its pages. It invites readers to think about travel as a human impulse, not just a sequence of destinations.

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• Travel writing blending essay, criticism and fiction
• Journeys from New Mexico to French Polynesia
• Shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year
• Witty, perceptive and cantankerous narration
• 256 pages, paperback edition
• Geoff Dyer, one of Britain's most original writers