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Podcast: Travel Writing Podcast
Episode: Tom Sykes Asks the Hard Questions About Anxiety and Travel
Description: When Tom Sykes was rushed through the clogged streets of Manila in an ambulance, he knew it wasn't the exotic surroundings of the Philippines that had sent his system into panic mode. A seasoned expat, travel writer, journalist and author, he was accustomed to the physical and psychological challenges of travel. No, the root of his debilitating anxiety was looking much deeper. He set out to find it.
In "The Years of Travelling Anxiously: A Travel Writer’s Search for Peace of Mind" Tom Sykes has authored neither a macho memoir nor a self-help text. It's a frank and thoughtful me...