How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone.
In the new edition of this standard guide, veteran travel writers Louise Purwin Zobel and Jacqueline Butler cover everything from pre-trip research on the Internet and at the library, to how to obtain writing assignments for websites, to ecotourism and volunteer travel opportunities, to specific marketing strategies and tax information. Written in ...
Fifteen years' worth of Paul Theroux's travel writings, including essays on the Maine woods, Hong Kong, a remote Pacific island, and other locations on five continents. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
This is the collection of the best travel writing of the year, much of it never published before, from big names in travel literature and emerging new writers. "The Best Travel Writing 2009" is the sixth volume in the annual "Travelers' Tales" series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to ...
Fifteen years' worth of Paul Theroux's travel writings, including essays on the Maine woods, Hong Kong, a remote Pacific island, and other locations on five continents. A New York Times Notable Book for 2000.
Travel writer, editor, and photographer, Chuck Thompson has spent more than a decade traipsing through thirty-five (and counting) countries across the globe, and he's had enough. Enough of the half-truths demanded by magazine editors, enough of the endlessly recycled cliches regarded as good travel writing, and enough of the ugly secrets fiercely ...
Writers will learn how to bring the adventures of their travels home in print. Here they'll discover the many types of travel articles there are to write and how to write them. Along with her instruction, O'Neil mixes in examples from travel articles.
Travel writer Claire Spencer doesn't believe in fate, much less any part of that fairy tale, happy ending, love at first sight stuff. Especially not for Amazon-sized women like her. So when Jack, the sexy man who sits next to her on a flight from New York to London, asks her out, Claire figures there has to be a catch. Is he blind? Sleazy? On the ...
Taken from periodicals such as Outside, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, the essays in this edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING cover many varieties of the travel experience, from the quest to the expose. Celebrated novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux is the guest editor.
Veteran travel writer Susan Farewell begins with basic writing techniques, exercises, and tips for avoiding "roadblocks", before getting to the nitty-gritty of the travel-writing business. You'll learn not only how to write about travel but how to travel to write; how to pitch and sell stories, find assignments, research topics, network in the ...
Bestselling author and "New Yorker" staff writer Susan Orlean edits this years volume of the finest travel writing from the past year. Contributors include Ian Frazier, Ann Patchett, David Halberstam, Peter Hessler, and others.
Essential reading for anyone who has ever dreamed of making a living out of their passion for travel. Covers writing for newspapers, magazines, travel guidebooks, and travel literature. Includes vital resources in the US, UK and Australasia.
Edited by the inimitable Bill Bryson, this inaugural anthology of travel writing--25 multifaceted essays by writers such as P.J. O'Rourke, Dave Eggers, Mark Ross, and Patrick Symmes--represents some of America's finest wandering eyes. A New York Times Best Book in Travel for 2000.
"Teach Yourself Travel Writing" gives you the tools to parlay your passion for visiting faraway places into a lucrative career. It explores the markets for travel writing and schools you in the business fundamentals, from writing irresistible proposals to negotiating fees. The book also explains how to craft compelling travel pieces, including ...
As technological advances increased the ease, speed, and reach of transportation, more and more women took to the air, to the road and the rail, and headed for points elsewhere. As they mastered new modes of mobility and then narrated their journeys, these women travelers left cultural ideas of femininity as sedentary, subordinate, and constrained ...
Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting - books that worry away at the 'German problem,' World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction ...
Taken from periodicals such as Outside, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, the essays in this edition of THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING cover many varieties of the travel experience, from the quest to the expose. Celebrated novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux is the guest editor.
A troubled quiltmaker takes refuge in a small town in North Carolina and meets up with a travel writer who is locked in a struggle with his own demons. Jed and Annie share an overwhelming desire to conquer their fears and let go of the past. But first they must confront the desire consuming their hearts.
Presenting a broad overview of travel writing, from classical antiquity to the present, Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia offers a multidisciplinary and multicultural guide to this growing area of study. With over 300 contributors from 35 countries, this set represents the global scope and interest in the history of travel ...
This title covers all aspects of travel writing, including photography, articles and book writing, and advises how to get published. It contains the ABCs of writing travel articles and suggestions on where to find great travel ideas.
After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near-mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic, whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. Elphinstone's plot takes the island location as its starting point, throws in ...
Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Mike Resnick turns his talent to the tale of a human who "goes native" on another world. William Lennox, a young military officer, is obsessed with alien cultures and religions. Sent in to open up new planets to human contact, he soon begins to immerse his soul in terrifying new ways of thought and to transform ...
This title is the second in our series of annual collections of the best travel writing. Many of these stories are original while some have appeared in other Travellers' Tales titles or elsewhere. But the common thread connecting them is fresh, lively storytelling and compelling narrative to make the reader laugh, weep, wish he were there, or be ...
The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', ...
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