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Dolman Best Travel Book Award


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The Dolman Best Travel Book Award is one of the two principal annual travel book awards in Britain, and the only one that is open to all writers.[1] The other award is that made each year by the British Guild of Travel Writers, but that is limited to authors who are members of the Guild.



The first Dolman award was given in 2006, just two years after the only other travel book award - the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award which ran for 25 years - was abandoned by its sponsor.[1] The £1,000 to £2,500 prize, organized by the Authors' Club, is sponsored by and named after club member William Dolman.[1][2]



[edit] Awards

Each year five works are shortlisted and a winner is announced in early July at a dinner gala with the authors and publishers in attendance.



2009[3]



(winner) Alice Albinia, Empires of the Indus

Andrew Brown, Fishing in Utopia

Richard Grant, Bandit Roads

Kapka Kassabova, Street Without a Name

Grevel Lindop, Travels on the Dance Floor

Dervla Murphy, The Island that Dared

2008



(winner) John Lucas, 92 Acharnon Street, Eland Books, March 2008, ISBN 978-0955010538

Tim Butcher, Blood River

Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places

Henry Hemming, Misadventure in the Middle East

Christopher Robbins, In Search of Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared

2007



(winner) Claire Scobie, Last Seen in Lhasa

David McKie, Great British Bus Journeys

Tom Parry, Thumbs Up Australia: Hitchhiking the Outback, http://www.nicholasbrealey.com/uk/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=81&idproduct=81

Rory McCarthy, Nobody Told Us We Are Defeated

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2006



(winner) Nicholas Jubber, The Prester Quest

Ruth Padel, Tigers in Red Weather: A Quest for the Last Wild Tigers

Joanna Kavenna, The Ice Museum

Stevie Smith, Pedalling to Hawaii

Richard Lloyd Parry, In the Time of Madness