Name: Ash Bhardwaj on 'Why We Travel'
Start: 2024-07-12T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-07-12T20:30:00+01:00
Location: Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh

Why do we travel? How do we do it better? Can it help us to live more fulfilling lives? This July, we're excited to welcome travel-writer Ash Bjardwaj to the Bookshop to talk about his latest literary endeavour, Why We Travel. Join us to find out more about this beautiful, insightful and thought-provoking book with the power to change how you see travel - and the world around you.
Why We Travel
Why We Travel is a smart-thinking travel book, which uses travel as a window into human motivations. It explores what we can gain from venturing out into the world.
It threads together reflective memoir, evocative travelogue, research, conversation, advice and big ideas. Some of the travels are epic adventures; others are closer to home; and some are journeys of internal exploration.
Each journey is a window into one of 12 motivations for travel: Curiosity, Inspiration, Happiness, Creativity, Serendipity, Hardship, Service, Healing, Wonder, Empathy, Eroticism, and Hope. By unpacking these motivations, and digging into the science of where they come from, this book asks how travel intersects with the rest of our lives.
About Ash Bhardwaj
Ash is a travel-writer, film-maker and storyteller who explores the world with curiosity, excitement and a sense of adventure. He has just finished an 8500km overland from the top of Norway to Romania, exploring former Soviet countries and their neighbours, at a time of increased tensions between Russia and the West. The project became a 6-part podcast for The Telegraph, "Edgelands." He has written for The Daily Telegraph, The Times, Huffington Post, The Evening Standard, City AM, Sunday Times Travel Magazine, BA Highlife, Etihad and Beyond Limits. His photography has appeared on the cover of The Times T2 magazine and he has produced programmes for Channel 4, the BBC, Animal Planet and Terra Mater.