The Best American Travel Writing 2020

The Best American Travel Writing 2020
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre:
ISBN: 0358362032

The year's best travel writing, as chosen by series editor Jason Wilson and guest editor Robert Macfarlane. Writing, reading, and dreaming about travel have surged, writes Robert MacFarlane in his introduction to the Best American Travel Writing 2020. From an existential reckoning in avalanche school, to an act of kindness at the Mexican-American border, to a moral dilemma at a Kenyan orphanage, the journeys showcased in this collection are as spiritual as they are physical. These stories provide not just remarkable entertainment, but also, as MacFarlane says, deep comfort, "carrying hope, creating connections, transporting readers to other-worlds, and imagining alternative presents and alternative futures." The Best American Travel 2020 includes HEIDI JULAVITS - YIYUN LI - PAUL SALOPEK - LACY JOHNSON - EMMANUEL IDUMA - JON MOOALLEM - EMILY RABOTEAU and others

The Best American Travel Writing 2021

The Best American Travel Writing 2021
Author: Jason Wilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0358361311

A collection of the year's best travel writing selected by Padma Lakshmi

Travel Writing 2.0

Travel Writing 2.0
Author: Tim Leffel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781609101084

This is the first guide to earning money from travel writing in a media landscape turned upside down. With stories and advice for dozens of working travel writers, editors, and publishers, Travel Writing 2.0 leads readers on a path to success straddling print and electronic media. Written by Tim Leffel, a successful writer, book author, editor, and blogger.

OxTravels

OxTravels
Author: Mark Ellingham
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2011-05-19
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1847657451

You have to go back to the 1980s and Granta's bestselling travel issue to find a book that compares to OxTravels. Introduced by Michael Palin, OxTravels features original stories from twenty-five top travel writers, including Michael Palin, Paul Theroux, Sara Wheeler, William Dalrymple, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Lloyd Jones, Rory Stewart, Jan Morris, Dervla Murphy, Rory MacLean, and others. Each of the stories takes as its theme a meeting - life-changing, affecting, amusing by turn - and together they transport readers into a brilliant, vivid atlas of encounters. This extraordinary collection is published in aid of Oxfam and all royalties from the book will support Oxfam's work.

Travel Writing

Travel Writing
Author: L. Peat O'Neil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Authorship
ISBN: 9781582970004

Tell us where you've been, and what you experienced there. Let us feel the ticket in your hand, see your ports of call, meet the people you've come to know. Put it all on paper. With the guidance of L. Peat O'Neil - who is on the staff of The Washington Post Magazine - you'll travel well and write engagingly, whether in journals for your own pleasure or articles for publication. Writing and marketing exercises follow pertinent chapters. Along with her instruction, O'Neil mixes in examples from travel articles. You'll taste the flavor of distant destinations even as you see how the writers sprinkled in that spice.

The Travel Writing Tribe

The Travel Writing Tribe
Author: Tim Hannigan
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1787386791

Where can travel writing go in the twenty-first century? Author and lifelong travel writing aficionado Tim Hannigan sets out in search of this most venerable of genres, hunting down its legendary practitioners and confronting its greatest controversies. Is it ever okay for travel writers to make things up, and just where does the frontier between fact and fiction lie? What actually is travel writing, and is it just a genre dominated by posh white men? What of travel writing’s queasy colonial connections? Travelling from Monaco to Eton, from wintry Scotland to sun-scorched Greek hillsides, Hannigan swills beer with the indomitable Dervla Murphy, sips tea with the doyen of British explorers, delves into the diaries of Wilfred Thesiger and Patrick Leigh Fermor, and gains unexpected insights from Colin Thubron, Samanth Subramanian, Kapka Kassabova, William Dalrymple and many others. But along the way he realises how much is at stake: can his own love of travel writing survive this journey? The Travel Writing Tribe tackles head on the fierce critical debates usually confined to strictly academic discussions of the genre. This highly original book compels readers and travellers of all kinds to think about travel writing in new ways.

Anxious Journeys

Anxious Journeys
Author: Karin Baumgartner
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1640140115

The first book to offer a cutting-edge discussion of contemporary travel writing in German, Anxious Journeys looks both at classical tropes of travel writing and its connection to current debates.

Travel Writing

Travel Writing
Author: Casey Blanton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2013-08-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136745645

Blanton follows the development of travel writing from classical times to the present, focusing in particular on Anglo-American travel writing since the eighteenth century. He identifies significant theoretical and critical contributions to the field, and also examines key texts by James Boswell, Mary Kingsley, Graham Greene, Peter Mathiessen, V.S. Naipaul, and Bruce Chatwin.

Travel Writing

Travel Writing
Author: Peter Ferry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2009-07-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156033923

A high-school English teacher in a wealthy Chicago suburb by day and a travel writer by night, Pete Ferry witnesses a car accident that kills a beautiful woman and becomes obsessed over whether or not the accident could have been prevented, a situation that strains his relationships and sense of reality.

Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830

Travel Narratives in Translation, 1750-1830
Author: Alison Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136244670

This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between 1750 and 1850, a period that saw a sudden surge in the genre's popularity. It explores how these translations played a vital role in the transmission and circulation of knowledge about foreign peoples, lands, and customs in the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. The collection makes an important contribution to travel writing studies by looking beyond metaphors of mobility and cultural transfer to focus specifically on what happens to travelogues in translation. Chapters range from discussing essential differences between the original and translated text to relations between authors and translators, from intra-European narratives of Grand Tour travel to scientific voyages round the world, and from established male travellers and translators to their historically less visible female counterparts. Drawing on European travel writing in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, the book charts how travelogues were selected for translation; how they were reworked to acquire new aesthetic, political, or gendered identities; and how they sometimes acquired a radically different character and content to meet the needs and expectations of an emergent international readership. The contributors address aesthetic, political, and gendered aspects of travel writing in translation, drawing productively on other disciplines and research areas that encompass aesthetics, the history of science, literary geography, and the history of the book.