In 1984 published its first issue devoted to travel writing. Nearly forty years after that genre-defining volume, a new generation of writers from around the globe offers a new vision of what travel writing can be. 157 is guest-edited by award-winning travel writer . It features: remembers the trees of his childhood Jamaica from his home in Leeds navigates Cuba's customs system travels from her home in the Brazilian Amazon to Antarctica in the era of climate crisis and : a former border guard travels to the US-Mexico border with a former undocumented migrant who crossed the border as a child 's richly illustrated essay on postcards and graffiti, inspired by Los Angeles visits a whale-hunting station on the Bering Strait, Russia visits Brazil with Clarice Lispector with the Tinglit people of the Taku River basin, Alaska Artist on Iceland returns to Lagos in his late father's footsteps, Nigeria among the gatherers of the ancient Mesta River, Bulgaria with Afghan migrants in Germany and Kabul in the alleyways of Taipei, Taiwan, in search of her mother's home in the Mauritanian Sahara in 1987 - a previously unpublished essay by the late icon of travel writing among the volcanoes of Duterte's Philippines tracks tigers in Paris and India Photographer on the legacy of whaling in Indigenous South Australia