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Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron, CBE FRSL (born 14 June 1939) is a British travel writer and novelist.<br/><br/> In 2008, The Times ranked him 45th on their list of the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, as of 2010, President of the Royal Society of Literature.<br/><br/> Colin Thubron has travelled extensively in and written about Asia, as well as Europe and the Middle East.
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work of travel writing is perhaps <i>The Great Railway Bazaar</i> (1975).<br/><br/> He has published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel <i>The Mosquito Coast</i>.<br/><br/> Paul Theroux has travelled extensively in and written about Asia, as well as Europe, Africa, The Americas and Oceania.
Peter Matthiessen (May 22, 1927 – April 5, 2014) was an American novelist, naturalist and travel writer A co-founder of the literary magazine <i>The Paris Review</i>, he was a three-time National Book Award winner. He was also a prominent environmental activist. His nonfiction featured nature and travel, most notably <i>The Snow Leopard</i> (1978).<br/><br/> In 2008, at age 81, Matthiessen received the National Book Award for Fiction for <i>Shadow Country</i>, a one-volume, 890-page revision of his three novels set in frontier Florida that had been published in the 1990s.<br/><br/> Matthiessen travelled extensively in and wrote about Asia, as well as the Americas, Antartica and Oceania.