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Afanasy Nikitin
Afanasy Nikitin (Афана́сий Ники́тин in Russian) (died 1472) was a Russian merchant and one of the first Europeans (after Niccolò de' Conti) to travel to and document his visit to India. He described his trip in a narrative known as The Journey Beyond Three Seas (Khozheniye za tri morya).
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Ahmad ibn Fadlan
Ahmad ibn Fadlān ibn al-Abbās ibn Rašīd ibn Hammād () was a 10th century Arab traveler, he is famous for his account of his travels as a member of an embassy of the Arab Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, the Kitāb ilā Mulk al-Saqāliba (كتاب إلى ملك الصقالبة) (book for the Owners of Scalivia). His account is most known for providing a description of the Volga Vikings, including an eye-witness account of a ship burial.
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Alberto Granado
Alberto Granado (born on August 8, 1922 in Hernando, Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine-Cuban doctor, writer, and scientist. He was the travelling companion of Che Guevara during their trip around Latin America, and founder of the Santiago School of Medicine in Cuba. He has written at least one book, Travelling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary. The book also served as reference for the 2004 film, The Motorcycle Diaries, in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna, while Che Guevara was played by Gael García Bernal. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film.
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Alexander Kinglake
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André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide () (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
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Antoine de la Sale
Antoine de la Sale or la Salle (1385/6 to 1460/1) was a French writer.
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Artaxerxes II
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Babur
Zahir ud-din Muhammad Babur ( — ) was a Muslim conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty of India. He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother. Babur identified his lineage as Timurid and Chaghatay-Turkic, while his origin, milieu, training, and culture were steeped in Persian culture and so he was largely responsible for the fostering of this culture by his descendants, and for the expansion of Persian cultural influence in the Indian subcontinent, with brilliant literary, artistic, and historiographical results.
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Bernard Schweizer
Bernard Schweizer (né Bernhard Schweizer, 1962-) is an associate professor of English at Long Island University, Brooklyn, specializing in twentieth-century British Literature. He has authored and edited several books, including two monographs and two collections of scholarly essays, and he has edited some of Rebecca West’s previously unpublished and uncollected works. In 2003, he founded the [http://www.rebeccawestsociety.org International Rebecca West Society] in New York, and he is currently the second president of the Society. Schweizer has written pioneering scholarly works in three fields: the politics of travel literature, the female epic, and the treatment of god-hatred in literature (misotheism).
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Bill Bryson
William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, (born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science. Born an American, he was a resident of North Yorkshire, UK, for most of his professional life before moving back to the US in 1995. In 2003 Bryson moved back to the UK, living in Norfolk, and was appointed Chancellor of Durham University.
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Bishwanath Ghosh
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Bosnians
Not to be confused with : Bosniak
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Bruce Chatwin
Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982). Married and bisexual, he was one of the first prominent men in Britain known to have contracted HIV and died of AIDS, although he hid the facts of his illness.
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Camilo José Cela
Camilo José María Manuel Juan Ramón Francisco Javier de Jerónimo Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (11 May 1916 - 17 January 2002), commonly known as Camilo José Cela (), was a Spanish novelist and short story writer. In 1989, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (born Cornelis Johannes Jacobus Maria Nooteboom, 31 July 1933, in the Hague) is a Dutch author. He has won numerous literary awards and has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in literature.
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. He published his theory with compelling evidence for evolution in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The scientific community and much of the general public came to accept evolution as a fact in his lifetime, but it was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. In modified form, Darwin's scientific discovery is the unifying theory of the life sciences, explaining the diversity of life.[http://darwin-online.org.uk/biography.html The Complete Works of Darwin Online - Biography.] darwin-online.org.uk. Retrieved on 2006-12-15
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular British novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
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Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (; June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat, military theorist, and major figure of the Cuban Revolution. Since his death, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol and global insignia within popular culture.
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Chiang Yee
Chiang Yee ( Pinyin Pinyin spelling system: Jiang2 Yi2, Wade-Giles: Chiang Yee) (May 19, 1903 – October 26, 1977), self-styled as "The Silent Traveller", was a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Cleo Paskal
Cleo Paskal is an Associate Fellow at Chatham House, (aka Royal Institute of International Affairs), Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Geopolitics, Manipal University, India and Adjunct Professor of Global Change, School of Communication and Management Studies, Kochi, India. Also she is a consultant for the U.S. Department of Energy's Global Energy and Environment Strategic Ecosystem and a Huffington Post [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cleo-paskal blogger].
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Cyrus the Younger
Cyrus (Kuruš) the Younger, son of Darius II of Persia (Dārayavahuš) and Parysatis, was a Persian prince and general. The time of his birth is unknown, but he died in 401 B.C. The history of Cyrus and of the retreat of the Greeks is told by Xenophon in his Anabasis. Another account, probably from Sophaenetus of Stymphalus, was used by Ephorus. Further information is contained in the excerpts from Ctesias by Photius; also Plutarch’s lives of Artaxerxes II and Lysander. These are the only sources of information for Cyrus the Younger.
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D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct.
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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri (May/June c.1265September 14, 1321), commonly known as Dante, was an Italian poet of the Middle Ages. He was born in Florence; he died and is buried in Ravenna.
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David Lodge (author)
David John Lodge CBE, (born 28 January 1935 at Brockley, London, England) is a British author.
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Douglas Adams
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame.
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Duarte Barbosa
Duarte Barbosa (Portugal - † 1521, Philippines) was a Portuguese writer and Portuguese India officer between 1500 and 1516–17, with the post of scrivener in Cannanore factory and sometimes interpreter of the local language (malayalam). His "Book of Duarte Barbosa" (Livro de Duarte Barbosa) is one of the earliest examples of Portuguese travel literature, written circa 1516, shortly after the arrival in the Indian Ocean. In 1519 Duarte Barbosa embarked on the first expedition to circumnavigate the world, lead by his brother in law Ferdinand Magellan, dying in 1521 at the feast of rajah Humabon in Cebu at the Philippines.
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Edward Said
Edward Wadie Saïd ( , ; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and advocate for Palestinian rights. He was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a founding figure in postcolonialism. Robert Fisk described him as the Palestinians' "most powerful political voice."
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Emily Kimbrough
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Ennin
Ennin ( or ) (AD 793 or 794 - 864), who is better known in Japan by his posthumous name, Jikaku Daishi (), was a priest of the Tendai school.
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Eothen
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Eric Newby
George Eric Newby CBE MC (December 6, 1919 – October 20, 2006) was an English author of travel literature.
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Ernest Peixotto
Ernest Clifford Peixotto (1869–1940) was an American artist, illustrator, and author. Although he was known mainly for his murals and his travel literature, his artwork also regularly appeared in ''Scribner's Magazine. His 1916 work Our Hispanic Southwest'' is famous for including the first written appearance of the ethnic slur "spic" (although, in fact, it had previously appeared with a different spelling and pronunciation).
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Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh () (28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer, best known for such darkly humorous and satirical novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Scoop, A Handful of Dust, and The Loved One, as well as for serious works, such as Brideshead Revisited and the Sword of Honour trilogy that clearly manifest his Catholic convictions. Many of Waugh's novels depict British aristocracy and high society, which he satirises but to which he was also strongly attracted. In addition, he wrote short stories, three biographies, and the first volume of an unfinished autobiography. His travel literature, extensive diaries and correspondence have also been published.
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Evliya Çelebi
Evliya Çelebi (March 25(?), 1611 – 1682) (اوليا چلبى) was a Turkish traveler who journeyed through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years.
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Fan Chengda
Fan Chengda (, 1126–1193), courtesy name Zhineng (致能), was one of the best-known Chinese poets of the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), a government official, and an academic authority in geography , especially the southern provinces of China. His written work also falls under the literary category of 'travel record literature' (youji wenxue), a narrative and prose style approach to writing about one's travel experiences, which was popular in China during the Song Dynasty.
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Faxian
Fa Xian (Traditional Chinese: 法顯; Simplified Chinese: 法显; Pinyin: Fǎxiǎn; also romanized as Fa-Hien or Fa-hsien) (337 – ca. 422 CE) was a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled to Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka to acquire Buddhist scriptures between 399 and 412. His journey is described in his important travelogue, A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline. He is most known for his pilgrimage to Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha.
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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan (, ; , ; c. 1480 – April 27, 1521) was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, but later obtained Spanish nationality in order to serve King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" (modern Maluku Islands in Indonesia).
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Frances Mayes
Frances Mayes is an American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist.
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Francesco Petrarch
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Gavin Maxwell
Gavin Maxwell FRSL, FIAL, FZS (Sc.), FRGS (15 July 1914 – 7 September 1969) was a Scottish naturalist and author, best known for his work with otters. He wrote the book Ring of Bright Water (1960) about how he brought an otter back from Iraq and raised it in Scotland. Ring of Bright Water sold more than a million copies and was made into a movie starring Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna in 1969. The title 'Ring of Bright Water' was taken from a poem by Kathleen Raine (1908–2003) who said in her autobiography that Maxwell had been the love of her life.
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Gavin Young
Gavin Young (24 April 1928 – 18 January 2001) was born in London, England on April 24, 1928, and he spent spent most of his youth in Cornwall and South Wales. He graduated from Oxford University where he studied modern history, and spent two years with a shipping company in Basra, Iraq before living with the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, that became a book, Return to the Marshes. In 1960, from Tunis, he joined The Observer of London as a foreign correspondent, and was the Observer’s correspondent in Paris and New York. He had covered fifteen wars and revolutions throughout the world, and worked for The Guardian and was a travel writer. Gavin Young died in London on January 18, 2001.
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George Borrow
George Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English author who wrote novels and travelogues based on his own experiences around Europe. Over the course of his wanderings, he developed a close affinity with the Romani people of Europe. They figure prominently in his work. His best known book is The Bible in Spain; Lavengro is autobiographical, and Romany Rye is about his time with the English Romanichal (gypsies).
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Gerald of Wales
Gerald of Wales (c. 1146 – c. 1223), also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times. Born around 1146 at Manorbier Castle in Pembrokeshire, Wales, he was of mixed Norman and Welsh blood, his name being Gerald de Barri.
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Gordon Sinclair
Allan Gordon Sinclair, OC, FRGS (June 3, 1900 – May 17, 1984) was a Canadian journalist, writer and commentator.
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Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene, OM, CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English author, playwright and literary critic. His works explore the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world. Greene was notable for his ability to combine serious literary acclaim with widespread popularity.
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert () (December 12, 1821 – May 8, 1880) was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary (1857), and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.
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Heinrich Harrer
Heinrich Harrer (; July 6, 1912 – January 7, 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.
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Heinrich Heine
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann. Heine's later verse and prose is distinguished by its satirical wit and irony. His radical political views meant that many of his works were banned by the authorities in Germany. Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate in Paris.
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Henry James
Henry James, OM ( – ) was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
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Henry Vollam Morton
Henry Canova Vollam ("H. V.") Morton (26 July 1892–18 June 1979) was a journalist and pioneering travel writer from Birmingham, England, best known for his prolific and popular books on Britain and the Holy Land. He first achieved fame in 1923 when, while working for the Daily Express, he scooped the official Times correspondent during the coverage of the opening of the Tomb of Tutankhamon in Egypt.
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet, whose work is often classified as part of the genre of dark romanticism. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd.
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Hilaire Belloc
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian who became a naturalised British subject in 1902. He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. He is most notable for his Catholic faith, which had a strong impact on most of his works and his writing collaboration with G.K. Chesterton.
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Homer
Homer (Ancient Greek: , Hómēros)
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Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British author and journalist, most famous for his novels about the British spy James Bond. Fleming chronicled Bond's adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories, a literary output that has sold over 100 million copies worldwide, making it one of the most popular series of related novels of all time. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and two works of non-fiction.
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Ibn Battuta
Hajji Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Abdullah Al Lawati Al Tanji Ibn Battuta (), or simply Ibn Battuta (February 25, 1304–1368 or 1369), was a Moroccan Berber Islamic scholar and traveller who is known for the account of his travels and excursions called the Rihla. His journeys lasted for a period of nearly thirty years and covered almost the entirety of the known Islamic world and beyond, extending from North Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, to the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance readily surpassing that of his predecessors and his near-contemporary Marco Polo. With this extensive account of his journey, Ibn Battuta is often considered as one of the greatest travellers ever.
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Ibn Batutta
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Ibn Jubayr
Ibn Jubayr (1145-1217; ) was a geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus.
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Isidora Sekulić
Isidora Sekulić (Serbian Cyrillic: Исидора Секулић) (February 17, 1877 – April 5, 1958) was a famous Serbian prose writer, novelist, essayist, adventurer, polyglot and art critic.
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Ivan T. Sanderson
Ivan Terence Sanderson (January 30, 1911 – February 19, 1973) was a naturalist and writer born in Edinburgh, Scotland, who became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Sanderson is remembered for his nature writing and his interest in cryptozoology and paranormal subjects.
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Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić (Serbian Cyrillic: Иво Андрић) (October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire. His native house in Travnik has been transformed into a Museum, and his Belgrade flat on Andrićev Venac host the Museum of Ivo Andrić, and Ivo Andrić Foundation.
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J. Slauerhoff
Jan Jacob Slauerhoff, who published as J. Slauerhoff, was a Dutch poet and novelist. He is considered one of the most important Dutch language writers.
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J. Smeaton Chase
J. Smeaton Chase (1864 – 1923) was an English author.
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Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast, and alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing covering topics such as jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. His writings have inspired other writers, including Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Robbins, Thomas Pynchon, Lester Bangs, Will Clarke, Richard Brautigan, Ken Kesey, Haruki Murakami, Jon Foreman, and Bob Dylan. Unsympathetic critics of his work have labeled it "slapdash", "grossly sentimental", and "immoral". Kerouac became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the Hippie movement. At age 47 in 1969 Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol. Since his death Kerouac's literary prestige has grown and several previously unseen works have been published. All of his books are in print today, among them: On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody and ''Big Sur.
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James Boswell
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson.
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Jan Morris
Jan Morris CBE (b. 2 October 1926, Clevedon, Somerset, England) is a Welsh nationalist, historian, author and travel writer. She is known particularly for the Pax Britannica trilogy, a history of the British Empire, and for portraits of cities, notably Oxford, Venice, Trieste, Hong Kong, and New York City.
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Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard (27 July 1929 – 6 March 2007) () was a French sociologist, philosopher, cultural theorist, political commentator, and photographer. His work is frequently associated with postmodernism and post-structuralism.
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Jeffrey Tayler
Jeffrey Tayler is a U.S.-born author and journalist. He is the Russia correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly and a contributor to several other magazines as well as to NPR's All Things Considered. He has written several non-fiction books about different regions of the world which include Facing the Congo, Siberian Dawn, ''Glory in a Camel's Eye, and Angry Wind, the latter being a portrait of a journey through the Muslim portion of black Africa. His most recent book, River of No Reprieve'', is about a challenging raft trip down Russia's Lena River.
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Jelena Dimitrijević
Jelena Dimitrijević (1862 - 1945), born in Kruševac was a Serbian writer of the late-19th and early 20th century.
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Jippensha Ikku
was the pen name of Shigeta Sadakazu (重田 貞一), a Japanese writer active during the late Edo period of Japan. He lived primarily in Edo in the service of samurai, but also spent some time in Osaka as a townsman. He was among the most prolific writers of the late Edo period — between 1795 and 1801 he wrote a minimum of twenty novels a year, and thereafter wrote , and over 360 .
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John Burroughs
John Burroughs (April 3, 1837 – March 29, 1921) was an American naturalist and essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress,
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John Mandeville
"Jehan de Mandeville", translated as "Sir John Mandeville", is the name claimed by the compiler of a singular book of supposed travels, written in Anglo-Norman French, and published between 1357 and 1371.
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John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams (July 11, 1767 – February 23, 1848) was the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829. He was also an American diplomat and served in both the Senate and House of Representatives. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of President John Adams and Abigail Adams. The name "Quincy" came from Abigail's maternal grandfather, Colonel John Quincy, after whom Quincy, Massachusetts, is named.
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John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). He wrote a total of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories. In 1962, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban (born 14 June 1942, Hempton, Norfolk, UK) is a British travel writer and novelist. He is the author of Waxwings, ', ', , Coasting, , Arabia Through the Looking Glass and Soft City.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
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Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish British novelist, who became a British subject in 1886.
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Jože Javoršek
Jože Javoršek was the pen name of Jože Brejc (20 October 1920 – 2 September 1990), a Slovenian playwright, writer, poet, translator and essayist. He is regarded as one of the greatest masters of style and language among Slovene authors. A complex thinker and controversial personality, Javoršek is frequently considered, together with the writer Vitomil Zupan, as the paradigmatic example of the World War II and postwar generation of Slovene intellectuals.
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Juan Goytisolo
Juan Goytisolo (born January 6, 1931 in Barcelona) is a Spanish poet, essayist, and novelist. He currently lives in a voluntary self-exile in Marrakech.
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Julian Barnes
Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946 Leicester, England) is a contemporary English writer. He has been shortlisted three times for the Man Booker Prize (''Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998), and Arthur & George'' (2005)). He has written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh.
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Karl Baedeker
Karl Baedeker (3 November 1801 – 4 October 1859) was a German publisher whose company Baedeker set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists.
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Karl Taro Greenfeld
Karl Taro Greenfeld (born 1964 in Kobe, Japan) is a journalist and author known primarily for his articles on life in modern Asia and both his fiction and non-fiction in The Paris Review.
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Kenn Kaufman
Kenn Kaufman (born 1954) is an American author, artist, naturalist, and conservationist, known for his work on several popular field guides of birds and butterflies in North America.
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Kira Salak
Kira Salak is an American writer, adventurer, and journalist known for her travels in Mali and Papua New Guinea. She has written two books of nonfiction and a book of fiction based on her travels and is a contributing editor at National Geographic magazine.
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Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption.
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Laurens van der Post
Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (aka Laurens van der Post) (December 13, 1906 – December 16, 1996) was a 20th century Afrikaner author of many books, farmer, war hero, to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, educator, journalist, humanitarian, philosopher, explorer, and conservationist.
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Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship, though more accurately, he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968 due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. Hence, he was denied the right to enter or settle in Britain under new laws and had to apply for a visa for each entry. His most famous work is the tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet.
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Lucjan Wolanowski
Lucjan Wilhelm Wolanowski (born Lucjan Kon on February 26, 1920, Warsaw, Poland, died February 20, 2006, Warsaw), pseudonyms: Wilk; Waldemar Mruczkowski; W. Lucjański; (L.W.); lu; Lu; (lw); WOL., Polish journalist, writer and traveller.
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Marco Polo
Marco Polo (; ) (c. 1254 – January 8, 1324) was a Christian merchant from the Venetian Republic who wrote Il Milione, which introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and met Kublai Khan. In 1269, they returned to Venice to meet Marco for the first time. The three of them embarked on an epic journey to Asia, returning after 24 years to find Venice at war with Genoa; Marco was imprisoned, and dictated his stories to a cellmate. He was released in 1299, became a wealthy merchant, married and had 3 children. He died in 1324, and was buried in San Lorenzo.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
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Marquis de Custine
Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine (March 18, 1790 – October 18, 1857) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia in 1839 Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia. This work documents not only Custine's travels through the Russian empire, but also the social fabric, economy, and way of life during the reign of Nicholas I.
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Mary Kingsley
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (October 13, 1862 – June 3, 1900) was an English writer and explorer who greatly influenced European ideas about Africa and African people.
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Mary Louise Pratt
Mary Louise Pratt is a Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft (; 27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason.
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Matsuo Bashō
was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku. His poetry is internationally renowned, and within Japan many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional sites.
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Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton (rhymes with frighten; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008), best known as Michael Crichton, was an American author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at #1 in television, film, and book sales (with ER, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure, respectively).
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Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault (), born Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), was a French philosopher, sociologist, and historian. He held a chair at the prestigious Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought," and also taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Mikirō Sasaki
Mikirō Sasaki (佐々木幹郎) , also Mikio Sasaki, (b. 20 October 1947) is a Japanese poet and travel author, winner of the 2003 Yomiuri Prize for travel essays. Sasaki won the award for his book Ajia kaidō kikō: umi wa toshi de aru (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard, 2002). He has published more than a score of poetry collections and travel books. His Demented flute: selected poems, 1967-1986 was published in English in 1988. Sasaki now lives in a mountain lodge in Nara Prefecture.
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Nasir Khusraw
Abu Mo’in Hamid ad-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani or Nāsir Khusraw Qubādiyānī [also spelled as Nasir Khusrow and Naser Khosrow] (1004 - 1088 AD (, ) was a Persian poet, philosopher, Isma'ili scholar and a traveler. He was born in Qubadyan, a village in middle-age Bactria in modern Tajikistan and died in Yamagan, a village in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.
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Neil Peart
Neil Peart () OC, (born September 12, 1952) is a Canadian musician and author. He is the drummer and primary lyricist for the rock band Rush.
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Norman Douglas
: For the New Zealand politician see Norman Douglas (New Zealand)
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Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières, Calvados - February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. His work has been translated into thirty languages.
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
'''Sir Patrick 'Paddy' Michael Leigh Fermor''' DSO OBE (born 11 February 1915, London) is a British author, scholar and soldier, who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II. He is widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer".
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Paul Bowles
Paul Frederic Bowles (December 30, 1910 – November 18, 1999) was an American expatriate composer, author, and translator.
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Pico Iyer
Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born essayist and novelist. He is the author of numerous books on travel including Video Night in Kathmandu. His shorter pieces have appeared in ''Time, Harper's, NYRB'' and many other publications.
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Predrag Miletić
Predrag Miletić, (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг Милетић), born in Niš, Serbia, (Yugoslavia) on , is a Serbian actor. He finished the Faculty of Drama Arts in Belgrade in the class of Ognjenka Milićević, professor. He was a full-time member of National Theatre in Niš, since 1972 to 1976, and after that, he entered Faculty of Dramatic Arts (FDU) in Belgrade. His first big role in Belgrade theater was 'La Mama', and lead role of Antoni in Terazije Theatre. Since 1985, Predrag Miletić has been member of the National Theatre in Belgrade, where he has appeared in more than 40 dramas. Also, he has appeared in almost all Serbian series since 1980, and has shot a number of domestic and foreign films. He is the only member of the Serbian National theater who has been employed professionally both in opera and drama department. He was a member of the "Z Teater", run by actor and director Milenko Zablaćanski, along with he participate in the famous Edinburgh International Festival, in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. He wrote a book about his journey from Beograd to the Serbian monastery Hilandar on Mount Athos in Greece by bicycle with his godfather Oliver Njego, solo-singer from National Theater. Book name is "Biciklom do Hilandara", ()
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Quim Monzó
Quim Monzó () (born March 24, 1952 in Barcelona, Spain), is a contemporary Catalan writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern Ireland and East Africa for the Barcelona newspaper Tele/eXprés. He lives in Barcelona and publishes regularly in La Vanguardia. His fiction is characterized by an awareness of pop culture and irony. His other prose maintains this humor. One collection of his essays, Catorze ciutats comptant-hi Brooklyn, is notable for its account of New York in the days immediately following September 11. In collaboration with Cuca Canals, he wrote the dialogue for Bigas Luna's Jamón, jamón. He has also written El tango de Don Joan, with Jérôme Savary. In 2007 he wrote and read the opening speech at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the year in which Catalan culture was the guest. Monzó designed an acclaimed speech written as if it was a short story. It differed completely from traditional speeches. Of December 2009 to April 2010 it took place in the Arts Santa Mònica Gallery in Barcelona a great retrospective exhibition on his life and his work, called Monzó.
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Richard Hakluyt
Richard Hakluyt (, , or ) (c. 1552 or 1553 – 23 November 1616) was an English writer. He is principally remembered for his efforts in promoting and supporting the settlement of North America by the English through his works, notably Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589–1600).
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Rifa'a el-Tahtawi
'''Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (also spelled Tahtawy'''; ; born in Tahta, Egypt 1801; died in 1873) was an Egyptian writer, teacher, translator, Egyptologist and renaissance intellectual. Tahtawi was among the first Egyptian scholars to write about Western cultures in an attempt to bring about a reconciliation and an understanding between Islamic and Western civilizations. He founded the School of Languages in 1835 and was influential in the development of science, law, literature and Egyptology in 19th-century Egypt. His work influenced that of many later scholars including Muhammad Abduh.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. Often called "the dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of the genre. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was one of the first writers to break into mainstream, general magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, in the late 1940s, with unvarnished science fiction. He was among the first authors of bestselling, novel-length science fiction in the modern, mass-market era. For many years, Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.
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Robert Byron
Robert Byron (1905 - 24 February 1941) was a British travel writer, best known for his travelogue The Road to Oxiana. He was also a noted writer, art critic and historian.
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Roger Poidatz
Roger Poidatz (1894–14 August 1976) was a French writer best known by his pseudonym, Thomas Raucat.
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Rory MacLean
Rory MacLean (born 1954) is a Canadian travel writer living in the UK and Berlin whose best known works are Stalin’s Nose, a black and surreal travelogue through eastern Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and Magic Bus, a history of the Asia Overland hippie trail.
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Rubén Caba
Rubén Caba, born in Madrid, is a Spanish novelist and essayist. Degrees in Law and in Philosophy at de Universidad Complutense de Madrid. And graduated in Sociology at Instituto de Estudios Políticos, Madrid.
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Ryszard Kapuściński
Ryszard Kapuściński (; March 4, 1932 - January 23, 2007) was a highly regarded Polish journalist and writer whose dispatches in book form brought him a global reputation. Also a photographer and poet, he was born in Pińsknow in Belarusin the Kresy Wschodnie, or eastern borderlands of the second Polish Republic. Much of Kapuściński's work is considered to ascend to the heights of literature. Kapuscinski himself called his work "literary reportage" in a 2001 interview.
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Sally Carrighar
Sally Carrighar (1898–1985) was an American naturalist and writer. She is especially known for her series of nature books chronicling the lives of wild animals. Humans are often absent from these tales.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was a British author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history". He is also the subject of "the most famous single work of biographical art in the whole of literature": James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
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Su Shi
Su Shi () (January 8, 1037 – August 24, 1101), was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era. His courtesy name was Zizhan () and his pseudonym was Dongpo Jushi (), and he is often referred to as Su Dongpo (). Besides his renowned poetry, his other extant writings are of great value in the understanding of 11th century Chinese travel literature as well as details of the 11th century Chinese iron industry.
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Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah (), né Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد طاهر الهاشمي) (born 16 November 1966 in London) is an Anglo-Afghan author, journalist and documentary maker. He lives in Casablanca, Morocco.
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Ted Simon
Ted Simon is a British journalist born in Germany in 1931. After studying chemical engineering at Imperial College he began his newspaper career in Paris with the Continental Daily Mail. Back in England to do National Service with the RAF he founded "Scramble", a magazine for recruits, which caught the attention of Arthur Christiansen, redoubtable editor of the Daily Express, and worked in Fleet Street for ten years. He eventually became Features Editor of the Daily Sketch, and shortly before that paper was amalgamated with the Daily Mail in 1964 he left to found and edit a man's magazine, "King", which survived for three years. He moved to France and contributed to various English newspapers and magazines, including The Observer and "Nova".
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Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) His last name is, according to Roosevelt himself, "pronounced as if it was spelled 'Rosavelt.' That is in three syllables. The first syllable as if it was 'Rose.'" ; An [http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/record.cfm?recordid=509 Audio recording] in which Roosevelt pronounces his own last name distinctly. To listen at the correct speed, slow the recording down by 20%. Retrieved on July 12, 2007. ) was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity. He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the short-lived Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912. Before becoming President (1901–1909) he held offices at the municipal, state, and federal level of government. Roosevelt's achievements as a naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier are as much a part of his fame as any office he held as a politician.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Tony Horwitz
Tony Horwitz (born June 9, 1958) is an American journalist and writer. His works include Blue Latitudes, One for the Road, Confederates In The Attic and Baghdad Without A Map. His most recent work, published in April 2008, is A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, a history and travelogue dealing with the early European exploration of North America.
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V. S. Naipaul
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC (born 17 August 1932), commonly known as V. S. Naipaul and sometimes as Sir Vidia Naipaul, is a British Trinidadian novelist and essayist of Indo-Trinidadian descent. He has been called "a master of modern English prose." He has been awarded numerous literary prizes including the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (1958), the Somerset Maugham Award (1960), the Hawthornden Prize (1964), the W. H. Smith Literary Award (1968), the Booker Prize (1971), and the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British Literature (1993). V. S. Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, the centenary year of the award.
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Venedict Yerofeyev
Venedikt Vasilyevich Yerofeyev (another spellings: Erofeev, Erofeyev; ; 24 October 1938 — 11 May 1990), was a Russian writer.
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Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth (, pronounced ; born June 20, 1952) is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (; 21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), better known by the pen name Voltaire (), was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade. Voltaire was a prolific writer and produced works in almost every literary form including plays, poetry, novels, essays, historical and scientific works, more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform, despite strict censorship laws and harsh penalties for those who broke them. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma and the French institutions of his day.
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W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (pronounced , ), CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.
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Wilfred Thesiger
Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, CBE, DSO, FRAS, FRGS (3 June 1910 – August 24, 2003) was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.
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William Dean Howells
William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He was known for the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day" and the novel The Rise of Silas Lapham.
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William Morris
William Morris (24 March 18343 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life. His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems (1858), The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball and the utopian News from Nowhere. He was an important figure in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the Socialist League in 1884, but breaking with the movement over goals and methods by the end of that decade. He devoted much of the rest of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he founded in 1891. The 1896 Kelmscott edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered a masterpiece of book design.
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Xenophon
Xenophon (Ancient Greek , Xenophōn; Modern Greek Ξενοφών, Ksenofon; Ξενοφώντας, Ksenofontas; c. 430 – 354 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the 4th century BC, preserving the sayings of Socrates, and descriptions of life in ancient Greece and the Persian Empire.
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Xuanzang
Xuanzang () (c. 602 – 664) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period.
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Yaqut al-Hamawi
'''Yaqut ibn-'Abdullah al-Rumi al-Hamawi''') (1179-1229) () was a Syrian biographer and geographer renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world. "al-Rumi" ("from Rûm") refers to his Greek (Byzantine) descent; "al-Hamawi" means that he is from Hama, Syria, and ibn-Abdullah is a reference to his father's name, Abdullah. The word yaqut means ruby.
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Yone Noguchi
Yone Noguchi, born (and known in Japan as) Yonejiro Noguchi (野口米次郎 Noguchi Yonejirō, December 8, 1875 - July 13, 1947), was an influential Japanese writer of poetry, fiction, essays, and literary criticism in both English and Japanese. He was the father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi.
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Zuko Džumhur
Zulfikar "Zuko" Džumhur (September 24, 1921, Konjic – November 27, 1989, Herceg Novi) was a Bosnian writer, painter and caricaturist. Džumhur's bohemian nature, versatility of a polymath and extremely creative personality have made him a unique figure of the Yugoslav culture in the second half of the 20th century.
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Bangkok
Bangkok is the capital, largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (, pronounced ), or กรุงเทพฯ Krung Thep (, meaning "city of angels" for short, it was a small trading post at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River during the Ayutthaya Kingdom. It came to the forefront of Siam when it was given the status as the capital city in 1768 after the burning of Ayutthaya. However, the current Rattanakosin Kingdom did not begin until 1782 when the capital was moved across the river by Rama I after the death of King Taksin. The Rattanakosin capital is now more formally called "Phra Nakhon" (), pertaining to the ancient boundaries in the metropolis' core and the name Bangkok now incorporates the urban build-up since the 18th century which has its own public administration and governor.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Cyprus
Cyprus (; , Kýpros, ; ), – officially the Republic of Cyprus (, Kypriakī́ Dīmokratía, ; ) – is a Eurasian island country in the Eastern Mediterranean, south of Turkey and west of Syria and Lebanon. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of its most popular tourist destinations. An advanced, high-income economy with a very high Human Development Index, the Republic of Cyprus was a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement until it joined the European Union on 1 May 2004.
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Georgia (country)
Georgia (, sak’art’velo ; ) is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan. Georgia covers a territory of 69,700 km² and its population is more than 4.6 million. Georgia's constitution is that of a representative democracy, organized as a unitary, semi-presidential republic. It is currently a member of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization, the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Community of Democratic Choice, the GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development, and the Asian Development Bank. The country aspires to join NATO and the European Union.
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Iran
Iran ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was also known to the western world as Persia. Both Persia and Iran are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, Iran is the name used officially in political contexts.
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Italy
Italy (; ), officially the Italian Republic (), is a country located in south-central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia — the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea — and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, whilst Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.4 million inhabitants, it is the sixth most populous country in Europe, and the twenty-third most populous in the world.
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Japan
Japan (日本 Nihon or Nippon), officially the State of Japan ( or Nihon-koku), is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The characters that make up Japan's name mean "sun-origin" (because it lies to the east of nearby countries), which is why Japan is sometimes referred to as the "Land of the Rising Sun".
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Lipari Islands
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Litija
Litija is a town and a municipality in central Slovenia. It is located in the valley of the river Sava, to the east of the capital Ljubljana. Traditionally the area was part of region the Lower Styria and Lower Carniola regions. The entire municipality is now included in the Central Slovenia statistical region. The town is home to about 7,000 people while the population of the municipality is about 15,000.
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Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire (, ; Urdu: ; self-designation: , ), or Mogul (also Moghul) Empire in former English usage, was an Indian-Islamic power that ruled a large portion of the Indian subcontinent which began in 1526, invaded and ruled most of South Asia by the late 17th and early 18th centuries and ended in the mid-19th century.
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New Delhi
New Delhi (, naī dillī) is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi.
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Poland
Poland (), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north. The total area of Poland is , making it the 69th largest country in the world and the 9th largest in Europe. Poland has a population of over 38 million people, which makes it the 34th most populous country in the world and the sixth most populous member of the European Union, being its most populous Slavic member.
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Russia
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Simon Winchester on American and British Travel Writing
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- Duration: 1:25
- Published: 16 Oct 2009
- Updated: 17 Aug 2010
- Author: condenasttraveler
Simon Winchester, Condé Nast Traveler contributor and author of 20 books, including The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa and A Crack in the Edge of the World, talks about the difference between American and British travel writing at a launch party for The Best American Travel Writing 2009 at Manhattans Idlewild Books.
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Tips for Becoming a Travel Writer - In Demand Travel Writing Jobs
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- Duration: 7:25
- Published: 26 Jan 2009
- Updated: 28 Jan 2012
- Author: money4traveling
MoneyForTraveling.com to to get a free starter guide on how become a paid travel writer. Making money for traveling & getting writing jobs while you travel is easier than you may imagine! http to follow us on Twitter. Tips for Becoming a Travel An enviable lifestyle: Become a travel writer for magazines. Travel Writing Tips Rolf Potts offers 10 practical tips for all prospective travel writers. ... Thus, the best I could tell folks was that—to be a travel writer—you have to ... Become a Travel Writer All the editors there took the time out to give me many suggestions and tips on how to become a better travel writer. ... Travel Writing - Brave New Traveler Study these practical tips and you'll have your travel writing published in no time. ... Becoming a travel writer is pretty easy you just More » ... Travel Writers: Tips When my Vagabonding column debuted lots of readers wrote to ask me how they, too, could get jobs as travel writers. This, I'll admit, ... Travel Writing Jobs - Become a Travel Writer I have been a travel writer for almost two decades and I gleaned some great tips from this book. Morris gives a step-by-step formula for turning an ... 7 Tips to Becoming a Professional Travel Writer Doesn't the thought of getting paid to travel the world sound better than sitting in the typical office nightmare of cluttered office Travel Writer Tips Providing tips and tricks for travel writers and travel bloggers. Offers resources, links, press trip information, and <b>...</b>
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Travel Lecture Part 1
Professor Eric D. Lehman lectures on the purpose of Travel Writing for his Literature of Travel and Adventure class. Part 1: Enlightenment describes a journey to the Freud House in north London.
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Portrait of a Travel Writer - Robin Esrock
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- Duration: 2:12
- Published: 18 Nov 2009
- Updated: 09 Feb 2012
- Author: MATADORnetwork
The first in a series of videos profiling travel writers, and sharing their advice on the profession. www.matadoru.com
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Joshua Berman Travel Writer in Belize
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- Duration: 2:16
- Published: 22 Mar 2011
- Updated: 30 Nov 2011
- Author: TranquiloTraveler
A day in the life of a travel writer in Belize. Author of Moon Belize, Joshua Berman, shows a brief glimpse of what it takes to update a guidebook. joshuaberman.net
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Robin Esrock - Travel Writer & TV Host
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- Duration: 3:32
- Published: 14 Jan 2010
- Updated: 03 Feb 2012
- Author: moderngonzo
A gonzo-fuelled, epic clip highlighting some of travel writer Robin Esrock's most memorable adventures. Filmed in over 25 countries on 6 continents, he asks: Are you good to go?
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How To Be The First Up On Machu Picchu
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- Duration: 4:22
- Published: 03 Feb 2012
- Updated: 20 Feb 2012
- Author: NationalGeographic
On the morning of January 1st, 2012, travel writer Aric S. Queen was the first atop Machu Picchu for 2012. He wore a GoPro camera on his head for the two-day journey. This is how that went...
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NYC Travel Writer visits 50 countries!
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- Duration: 2:00
- Published: 29 Apr 2008
- Updated: 26 Aug 2010
- Author: KAMurphy313
Cathay Che is a New York based travel writer who has blazed her way through about 50 countries (so far). She is also the author of the book, Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde, the only authorized biography of the iconic Blondie frontwoman. She was a contributing editor at Time Out New York from 1995-2004, and is now a contributing editor at LEXUS magazine. She has been happily contributing her uncensored travel blog, TRAVEL JUNKIE: Addicted to a Taste of Strange, to MOLI.com for sixteen months. She has also written for concierge.com, DailyCandy.com, Brides, forbestraveler.com, Everyday With Rachel Ray, Budget Travel, Mens Journal, Details, Interview, InStyle, The New York Post travel section, The Honolulu Advertiser, men.style.com, and Glamour. As a performance artist, Che has appeared in New York at The Kitchen, PS 122, Dixon Place, WOW Cafe, Exit Art and The Public Theater. Her first media-related job was as the on-air movie reviewer for the cable TV show, Party Talk, from 1993-1996. Courtesy of cathayche on MOLI.com. Visit cathayche in the MOLI View.
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Pico Iyer at Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers
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- Duration: 71:08
- Published: 08 Jul 2011
- Updated: 24 Feb 2012
- Author: oxfordamerican
Pico Iyer, who Time magazine said is "among the finest travel writers of his generation," was interviewed by The Oxford American's editor and founder, Marc Smirnoff, at the Oxford American Summit for Ambitious Writers on June 23, 2011. Pico Iyer is the author of seven works of nonfiction, including VIDEO NIGHT IN KATHMANDU (cited on many lists of the best travel books ever), THE LADY AND THE MONK (finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the category of Current Interest), and THE GLOBAL SOUL (subject of websites and theatrical productions around the world). His most recent book, THE OPEN ROAD, describing more than thirty years of talking and traveling with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, came out in a dozen countries, and was a bestseller across the US Praised by TIME as "among the finest travel writers of his generation," Mr. Iyer writes on literature for THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, on globalism for HARPER'S, and on many other topics for such venues as the NEW YORK TIMES, which affirms Mr. Iyer to be "brilliant...[he] reflects back at us images from a post-colonial world that is gorgeously complex and stubbornly elusive, yet firmly within his grasp."
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Temple of Literature 2 Vietnam travel shared at trafest.com
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- Duration: 10:23
- Published: 23 Sep 2007
- Updated: 30 Aug 2011
- Author: amazingvietnam
Vietnam Temple of Literature 2 shared at www.trafest.com
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Travel Skills: Itinerary Planning
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- Duration: 3:12
- Published: 03 Jun 2009
- Updated: 16 Jan 2012
- Author: RickSteves
Developing a thoughtful itinerary not only helps make the most of a trip, it also helps nurture travel dreams. Brainstorming a must-see wish list, reading books, and watching movies about destinations allow travelers to embark on the experience before reaching Europe by enjoying the planning phase. For more information on the Rick Steves' Europe TV series — including episode descriptions, scripts, participating stations, travel information on destinations and more — visit www.ricksteves.com.
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'Hot Tea Across India' Travel Book Launch
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- Duration: 1:41
- Published: 03 Feb 2012
- Updated: 12 Feb 2012
- Author: TheCinecurry
Hot Tea Across India has been written by Rishad Saam Mehta, a known travel writer and photographer. The book, which will definitely interest travelers, is already receiving positive response from reviewers.
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Travel For Free As A Travel Writer
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- Duration: 4:04
- Published: 06 May 2009
- Updated: 12 Apr 2011
- Author: imagefirst1
Information about how to become a travel writer or journalist.. For free travel articles for websites and ezines visit articlesabroad.com or http
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Travel Writer James Ruggia: An Interview on Traveling Turkey
Turkish Hour TV www.turkishhourtv.com 1221 / James Ruggia, Travel Writer
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I want to be a travel writer
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 12 Oct 2010
- Updated: 06 Oct 2011
- Author: kittenclicks
I want to be a travel writer
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The Wild Life and Times of a Gonzo Travel Writer
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- Duration: 3:41
- Published: 23 Sep 2006
- Updated: 25 Aug 2010
- Author: moderngonzo
More action from the big, bad world, as Esrock shares clips from Mongolia, Albania, Russia, Cambodia, and other exotic destinations. Somewhat silly, somewhat daft, get some inspiration while it's cheap.
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Impressions of Tokyo after one month's stay by a travel writer
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- Duration: 3:34
- Published: 21 Jun 2011
- Updated: 05 Aug 2011
- Author: visitjapan
This video was taken on June 20 in Yurakucho, Tokyo when Beth Reiber was almost finishing her one-month work in Tokyo to update her Frommer's Guide Tokyo.
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SRI-LANKA - photo travelogue foto reisverslag Reisebericht
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- Duration: 4:57
- Published: 30 Apr 2008
- Updated: 27 Aug 2010
- Author: hanshendriksen
Sri-Lanka photo travelogue with daily-life, culture and nature impressions by Dutch travel photographer Hans Hendriksen, animations compiled by Annemieke Knowles. More travel photos on www.hanshendriksen.net Foto reisverslag Sri Lanka. Kultur Foto Reisebericht Srie-Lanka.
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Clint Brownfield, Travel Writer, interview part 1
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- Duration: 5:32
- Published: 11 Aug 2009
- Updated: 02 Dec 2009
- Author: HastingsTravel
Clint Brownfield, Travel Writer, interviewed by WABC's Erik Hastings onTravel Show Live
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Everett Potter Travel Writer 1/2
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- Duration: 8:25
- Published: 09 Dec 2009
- Updated: 26 Jul 2011
- Author: PerilloTravelTV
In this episode Steve interviews travel writer Everett Potter. What are the best places in the world to go skiing? How has the economy opened up great deals for travel, making now one of the best times ever to take your dream vacation? The five critical questions you should ask before going on any trip. Part 1 of 2 Ep 8: Original Air Date: Dec 6, 2009 Everett Potter is editor-in-chief of Everett Potter's Travel Report and a columnist for USA Weekend magazine, which is distributed to more than 600 newspapers and has 23 million readers. He is a contributing editor for Ski and a frequent contributor to National Geographic Traveler, Travel & Leisure Online, New York, Town & Country, Martha Stewart Living, Virtuoso Life, Endless Vacation, and Forbes Life. ( www.everettpotter.com ) Steve Perillo is the third generation CEO of Perillo Tours, one of the largest, oldest and best respected travel companies in the world, specializing in trips to Italy. ( www.perillotours.com )
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DFN Q&A; #3 - 23-40 - Pay, Travel, Writers, What bothers me
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- Duration: 10:43
- Published: 27 Aug 2008
- Updated: 18 Mar 2011
- Author: dmarco1125
So here we are and we are half way through: 23. What bothers you most about what is going on today in the business? 24. If you could go back in time would you change anything about the way you broke in? 25. Has physical or mental stress ever caused you to take a break? If so why? 26. If physical harm has come to you and I'm sure it has was it from your most brutal match and what was that match? 27. What has been the biggest injury you've ever had? 28. How long have you been sidelined for whatever reason? 29. What do you do when you aren't wrestling for extra cash? 30. How many miles would you say you travel in a total year for shows only? 31. Do you generally get paid for travel and how do you usually go about it? 32. How much do you get paid for a show? 33. Does that beat your day job? 34. If you weren't wrestling what would your dream job be? If it is wrestling related what would your non-wrestling dream job be? 35. What is the worst thing about wrestling aside from the pain? 36. What is the worst thing period just in every day life? For example bad smells, cigarette smoke, people cutting you off. 37. I know I'm jumping back and forth, but what gear to prefer to wrestle in? 38. We all know who the most important family in wrestling is, but who is the second most important person or people? 39. Who has been the best writer of all time and who is the best writer right now? 40. What do you think about Freddie Prinze Jr. writing now? Part 4 should be up fairly soon. Don't <b>...</b>
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Reb Stevenson: Tasting Termites
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- Duration: 3:17
- Published: 10 Dec 2008
- Updated: 27 Aug 2010
- Author: rebstevenson
Canadian travel writer Reb Stevenson eats termites in Puerto Rico, then wonders whether it was due to peer pressure from other travel writers. SURF! rebstevenson.com TWEET! http FAN! bit.ly
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"Kudajadri" - Yathra 3,February 2012 Part 1
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- Duration: 8:50
- Published: 04 Feb 2012
- Updated: 27 Feb 2012
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By TAYLOR MIGNON Special to The Japan Times For many Japanese writers and artists of the 1920s and '30s, Surrealism was simply a stylistic novelty. Poet Shuzo Takiguchi, however, produced Surrealist writings whose message was lent conviction by the risks he took -- at the time, artistic and...(size: 4.0Kb)
TRAVEL LITERATURE
10 Oct 2001
The Irish Times
Sir, - Edward J. Barber (October 3rd), referring to the...(size: 0.4Kb)
Houston Chronicle
EXPLORERS in their sailing ships and dugout canoes carefully followed the journals of those who had gone before. When their explorations went badly, they switched genres -- to Scripture. Barbara Clooney's Miss Rumphius -- the Lupine Lady -- sowed her blue and purple flowers all over the hills of...(size: 7.8Kb)
Travel literature is travel writing of literary value. Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary. Travel literature may be cross-cultural or transnational in focus, or may involve travel to different regions within the same country. Accounts of spaceflight may also be considered travel literature.
Homer (fl. 8th century BC)
:''Odyssey —'' epic poem accounting the travels of the Greek hero, Odysseus, on his voyage home from Troy.
Xenophon (431–355 BC)
:''Anabasis'' - about the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II
Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 – after c. 180)
:''True History —'' documents a fantastic voyage that parodies many mythical travels recounted by other authors, such as Homer; considered to be among the first works of science fiction.
Pausanias (fl. 2nd century)
:''Description of Greece''
:''Mosella'' (''The Moselle'', c. 370) — describes the poet's trip to the banks of the river Moselle, then in Gaul.
Faxian (c. 337 – c. 422), Chinese traveler to India and Ceylon
:''A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms: Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fâ-Hien of His Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline''
Rutilius Claudius Namatianus (fl. 5th century)
:''De reditu suo'' (''Concerning His Return'', c. 416) — the poet describes his voyage along the Mediterranean seacoast from Rome to Gaul.
:''Great Tang Records on the Western Regions'' (646) — narrative of the Buddhist monk's journey from China to India.
:''The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law'' (838-847)
Ahmad ibn Fadlan (fl. 10th century)
:''Kitāb ilā Mulk al-Saqāliba'' (كتاب إلى ملك الصقالبة) (A letter to the king al-Saqāliba, Ibn Faḍlān's account of the caliphal embassy from Baghdad to the King of the Volga Bulghārs, c. 921)
:''Safarnama'' (c. 1046)
:''The Travels of Ibn Jubayr'' (c. 1185)
Gerald of Wales (1146 1223)
:''Itinerarium Cambriae'' (''Journey Through Wales'', 1191)
Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229)
:''Mu'jam Al-Buldan'' (''Dictionary of Countries'')
Marco Polo (1254 1324 or 1325), Venetian traveller to China and the Mongol Empire
:''Il Milione'' (1298)
:''A Journey Beyond the Three Seas''
Ẓahīr ud-Dīn Muḥammad Bābur (1483-1531), founder of the Mughal Empire
:''Baburnama'', memoirs, including his descriptions of the places he lived and/or conquered.
Duarte Barbosa (?–1521), Portuguese writer and explorer who died in Magellan's circumnavigation
:''The book of Duarte Barbosa: an account of the countries bordering the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants'' (1516, originally known through the testimony of Italian Giovanni Battista Ramusio)
Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509–1583), Portuguese explorer and writer
:''Peregrinação'' (meaning "Pilgrimage", published posthumously in 1614) memoir of his travels in the Middle and Far East, Ethiopia, Arabian Sea, India and Japan, as one of the first Europeans to reach it in 1542.
Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616)
:''The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation'' (1589) — a foundational text of the travel literature genre.
Evliya Çelebi, (1610–1683)
:''Seyahatname''
Johann Sigmund Wurffbain (1613–1661)
:''Reise Nach Den Molukken Und Vorder-Indien, 1632-1646'' (Travel to the Moluccas and the Middle East Indies, 1632-1646) (1646)
François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz (1623–1668)
:''Les voyages et observations du sieur de La Boullaye Le gouz'' (1653 & 1657) — one of the very first true travel books.
Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694)
:''Kashima Kikō'' (A Visit to Kashima Shrine) (1687)
:''Oi no Kobumi'', or ''Utatsu Kikō'' (Record of a Travel-Worn Satchel) (1688)
:''Sarashina Kikō'' (A Visit to Sarashina Village) (1688)
:''The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches'' (trans. 1967)
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
:''Gulliver's Travels'' (1726, amended 1735)
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) — known for the letters she wrote during several trips abroad, which were important for later female travel writers. These letters include:
:''Turkish Embassy Letters'' — letters describing her life as an ambassador's wife in Turkey, important as one of the earliest discussions of the Muslim world by a woman
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
:''A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland'' (1775) — the lexicographer and his friend James Boswell (1740–1795) visit Scotland in 1773.
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
:''A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy'' (1768)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
:''Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789'' — record of Jefferson's travels in France, Holland, Germany and Italy, included in his Complete Works with selected portions in various collections of his writings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1743 1832)
:''Italienische Reise'' (1816–1817)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
:''A Short Residence in Sweden'' (1796)
:''Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark'' (1796)
Johann Gottfried Seume (1763–1810)
:''Spaziergang nach Syrakus'' (1803)
Jippensha Ikku (1765–1831)
:''Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige'' (The Shank's Mare) one of the most famous of the Edo period ''michiyuki'' (journey) novels.
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
:''Letters on Silesia: Written During a Tour Through That Country in the Years 1800, 1801'' (1804)
Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet (1788–1873)
:''Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c.;, during the years 1812 and 1813'' (1815)
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
:''Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland'' (1836)
:''Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine'' (1836)
:''Gleanings in Europe: England'' (1837)
Marquis de Custine (1790–1857)
:''Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia'' (1838)
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
:''Reisebilder'' (1826–33), ''Harzreise'' (1853)
Karl Baedeker (1801–1859), German publisher whose company set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists
Rifa'a el-Tahtawi (1801–1873), Egyptian traveler to France
:''Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz'' ("An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)", 1834)
George Borrow (1803–1881)
:''The Bible in Spain'' (1843)
:''Wild Wales'' (1862)
John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852)
:''Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa and the Holy Land'' (1837)
:''Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland'' (1838)
:''Incidents of Travel in Central American, Chiapas and Yucatan'' (1841)
:''Incidents of Travel in Yucatan'' (1843)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
:''Journey to America'' (1831–1832)
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875)
:''The Improvisatore'' (1835)
Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
:''The Voyage of the Beagle'' (1839)
Alexander Kinglake (1809–1891)
:''Eothen'' (1844)
Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
:''American Notes'' (1842)
:''Pictures from Italy'' (1844–1845)
Herman Melville (1819–1891)
:''Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life'' (1846)
:''Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas'' (1847) — chronicles of Melville's experiences as a sailor in Polynesia.
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) — left travel notes and letters, including:
:''Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour'' (publ.1972) — letters
Fran Levstik (1831–1887)
:''Popotovanje od Litije do Čateža'' (1858) — a journey from Litija to Čatež that includes a very influential Slovenian literary programme.
William Morris (1834–1896)
:''Icelandic Journals'' (1911)
Mark Twain (1835–1910)
:''The Innocents Abroad'' (1869)
:''Roughing It'' (1872)
:''A Tramp Abroad'' (1880)
:''Following the Equator'' (1897)
John Burroughs (1837–1921)
:''Fresh Fields'' (1884)
William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
:''Certain Delightful English Towns'' (1906)
Henry James (1843–1916)
:''A Little Tour in France'' (1884)
:''English Hours'' (1905)
:''The American Scene'' (1907)
:''Italian Hours'' (1909)
Joshua Slocum (1844–1909)
:''Sailing Alone Around the World'' (1899)
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917)
:''La 628-E8'' (1908)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
:''An Inland Voyage'' (1878)
:''Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'' (1879)
:''The Silverado Squatters'' (1883)
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
:''Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail'' (1888)
:''Through the Brazilian Wilderness'' (1914)
Jelena Dimitrijević (1862–1945)
:''Letters from Niš Regarding Harems'' (1897)
:''Letters from Salonica on Young Turk Revolution'' (1918)
:''Letters from India'' (1928)
:''Letters from Egypt'' (1929)
:''The New World, alias: In America for a Year'' (1934)
Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (1862–1908)
:''Enchanted India'' (1898)
Mary Kingsley (1862–1900)
:''Travels in West Africa'' (1897)
J. Smeaton Chase (1864–1923)
:''Yosemite Trails'' (1911)
:''California Coast Trails'' (1913)
:''California Desert Trails'' (1919)
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867–1951)
:''Across Asia from West to East in 1906-1908'' (English trans. 1940) — explorations by Czarist spy who would later become President of Finland.
Norman Douglas (1868–1962)
:''Old Calabria'' (1915)
André Gide (1869–1951)
:Voyage au Congo (1927)
:Le retour de Tchad (1928)
:Retour de l'U. R. S. S. (1936)
:Retouches â mon retour de l'U. R. S. S (1937)
Ernest Peixotto (1869–1940)
:''Our Hispanic Southwest'' (1916) — contains the first usage of the ethnic slur "spic"
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)
:''The Path To Rome'' (1902) — a ramble by foot from central France to Rome in 1901.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)
:''On a Chinese Screen'' (1922) — vignettes of China in the '30s from the master of the short story.
Yone Noguchi (1875–1947)
:''The American Diary of a Japanese Girl'' (1903)
Isidora Sekulić (1877–1958)
:''Pisma iz Norveške / Letters from Norway'' (1914)
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)
:''Sea and Sardinia'' (1921)
Henry Vollam Morton (1892–1979)
:''The Heart of London'' (1925)
:''In Search of England'' (1927)
Rebecca West (1892–1983)
:''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon'' (1941) — an 1,181-page look at Yugoslavia before the tragedies of World War II and the 1990s wars.
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan (1893–1963)
:''Volga Se Ganga'' ("A Journey From Volga to Ganga", 1944)
Thomas Raucat (1894–1976)
:''L'honorable partie de campagne'' ("The honorable picnic", 1924)
:''De Shang-Haï à Canton'' ("From Shanghai to Canton", 1927)
J. Slauerhoff (1898–1936)
:''Alleen de havens zijn ons trouw'' ("Only the Ports Are Loyal to Us", 1992 [1927–1932])
Peter Aufschnaiter (1899–1973)
:''Eight Years in Tibet'' (1983)
Emily Kimbrough (1899–1989) — writer of travel humor
:''And a Right Good Crew'' (1958)
Gordon Sinclair (1900–1984)
:''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India'' (1936) — a somewhat curmudgeonly account of 1934 travels in British India by a later famous Canadian journalist and television personality.
Richard Halliburton (1900–1939), one of the most famous explorers and adventure writers of his generation
:''The Royal Road to Romance'' (1925)
:''The Glorious Adventure'' (1927)
:''New Worlds to Conquer'' (1929)
:''The Flying Carpet'' (1932)
:''Seven League Boots'' (1935)
John Steinbeck (1902–1968)
:''A Russian Journal'' (1948) — A trip through Russia, Ukraine and Georgia in the Soviet Union shortly after World War II with the friend and renowned war photographer Robert Capa.
:''Travels with Charley: In Search of America'' (1962) — an American road book describing Steinbeck's journeys with his poodle, Charley.
Chiang Yee (1903–1977)
:''The Silent Traveller series'' — 11 books about his travels in Britain, the USA and Japan
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
:''Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing'' — an account of the English novelist's restless wanderings around the world in the 1930s and later.
Graham Greene (1904–1991)
:''Journey Without Maps'' (1936)
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007)
:"America" (1986)
Robert Byron (1905–1941)
:''The Road to Oxiana'' (1937) — travels in Persia and Afghanistan
Laurens van der Post (1906–1996)
:''The Lost World of the Kalahari'' (1958) — Auberon Waugh (1939–2001) described van der Post as the person in whose company he'd most like to spend an evening. This book by the South African soldier/explorer/writer suggests why.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988)
:''Tramp Royale'' (1992)
Ian Fleming (1908–1964)
:''Thrilling Cities'' (1963)
Paul Bowles (1910–1999)
:''Yallah'' (1957)
:''Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue'' (1963)
Wilfred Thesiger (1910–2003)
:''Arabian Sands'' (1959)
Gavin Young (1928–2001)
:''Return to the Marshes'' (1977)
:''Iraq: Land of Two Rivers'' (1980)
:''Slow Boats to China'' (1981)
:''Halfway Around the World: An Improbable Journey'' (1983)
:''Slow Boats Home'' (1985)
Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)
:''Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra'' (1945) — this text describes Durrell's time in Corfu. It should be read in tandem with his brother Gerald's ''My Family and Other Animals''.
:''Reflections on a Marine Venus'' (1953) — experiences in Rhodes.
:''Bitter Lemons'' (1957) — travels in Cyprus.
Heinrich Harrer (1912–2006)
:''Seven Years in Tibet'' (1952)
Gavin Maxwell (1914–1969)
:''People of the Reeds'' (1957)
Patrick Leigh Fermor (b. 1915)
:''A Time Of Gifts'' (1977) — a journey by an 18 year old in 1933/4 overland from the Hook of Holland to Hungary, rewritten in old age from long lost notes.
Roger Pilkington (1915–2003) — author of the "Small Boat" series
:''Small Boat on the Thames'' (1966)
:''Small Boat on the Moselle'' (1968)
Camilo José Cela (1916–2002)
:''Viaje a la Alcarria'' (1948)
Eric Newby (1919–2006), popular English travel writer
:''A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush'' (1958)
Lucjan Wolanowski (1920–2006)
:''Post to Never-Never Land'' (Poland, 1968) reports from Australia.
:''Heat and fever'' (Poland, 1970) reports from the work in World Health Organization Information department in Geneva, travels in New Delhi, Bangkok and Manila, 1967-1968.
Jože Javoršek (1920-1990)
:''Indija Koromandija'' (1962), a travelogue through India by one of the most important Slovenian essayists of the 20th century
Zulfikar "Zuko" Džumhur (1921, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1989) was a Bosnian writer, painter and caricaturist. He wrote screenplays and hosted TV show ''Hodoljublje'', a travel documentary. He successfully produced this show for over ten years for television ''TV Sarajevo''.
:''Hodoljublja'' (1982, "TV Sarajevo" Bosnia and Herzegovina) (Travelogue - a travel documentary with focus on culture, traditions, art and nature of Bosnia and Herzegovina, (ex) Yugoslavia and countries he sojourned, primarily Islamic and countries of Mediterranean Basin.)
:''Nekrolog jednoj čaršiji'' (1958) (Obituary of a čaršija (the downtown/main street Ottoman-Turkish style bazaar)) (with an introduction by Ivo Andrić)''
:''Pisma iz Azije'' (1973) (Letters from Asia)
:''Pisma iz Afrike i Evrope'' (Letters from Africa & Europe)
:''Stogodišnje priče'' (Centennial tales)
:''Putovanje bijelom Ladom'' (1982) (Voyage with white "Lada" ''("Lada" is a brand of Russian automobile)'')
:''Adakale''
:''Zelena čoja Montenegra'' (Green carpet of Montenegro - co-authored with Serbian novelist Momo Kapor)
Gerald Durrell (1925–1995)
:''My Family and Other Animals'' (1956) — a description of an idyllic childhood on Corfu in the 1930s by the brother of Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990). This text combines natural observations, humour, storytelling, and travel.
:''Fillets of Plaice'' (1971)
Jan Morris (b. 1926)
:''Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere'' (2001) — author of many works, especially about cities; prior to the 1970s, her work was published under her previous name, "James Morris."
Che Guevara (1928–1967)
:''The Motorcycle Diaries'' (1952) — Traces the 8000 km trip through South America of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, then a 23-year-old medical student, and his friend Alberto Granado a 29-year-old biochemist (who also published his own diaries of the event in Travelling with Che Guevara).
Primož Kozak (1929-1981)
:''Peter Klepec in America'' (1971), a travelogue through the United States by one of the most important Slovenian essayists of the 20th century
Juan Goytisolo (b. 1931)
:''Campos de Nijar'' (1959)
Ted Simon (b. 1931)
:''Jupiter's Travels'' (1979)
Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007)
:''Another Day of Life'' (1976)
:''The Soccer War'' (1978)
:''The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat'' (1978)
:''Shah of Shahs'' (1982)
:''Imperium'' (1993)
:''The Shadow of the Sun'' (2001)
Cees Nooteboom (b. 1933), Dutch travel writer
:''Berlijnse Notities'' (1990)
:''Roads to Santiago'' (1992)
:''Nootebooms Hotel'' (2002)
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934–2002)
:''Italian Days'' (1989)
David Lodge (b. 1935)
:''Paradise News, 1991
Rubén Caba (b. 1935)
:''Por la ruta serrana del Arcipreste'' (1976, 1977, 1995)
Venedict Yerofeyev (1938–1990)
:''Moskva–Pеtushki'' (1973) — a Russian tale of alcohol, love, and a train ride; translated into English as ''Moscow to the End of the Line''.
William Least Heat-Moon (b. 1939)
:''Blue Highways: A Journey into America'' (1982)
Peter Mayle (b. 1939)
:''A Year in Provence'' (1989)
Colin Thubron (b. 1939)
:''Mirror to Damascus'' (1967)
Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989), an English stylist of the 20th century
:''In Patagonia'' (1977)
:''The Songlines'' (1987)
Frances Mayes (b. 1940)
:''Under the Tuscan Sun'' (1996) — a memoir of buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in rural Tuscany in Italy.
Paul Theroux (b. 1941)
:''The Great Railway Bazaar'' (1975) — perhaps Theroux's most popular travel work.
Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
:''Old Glory: An American Voyage'' (1981)
Michael Crichton (1942–2008)
:''Travels'' (1988)
Michael Palin (b. 1943)
:''Sahara'' (2002)
Julian Barnes (b. 1946)
:''A History of the World in 10½ Chapters'' (1989)
:''England, England'' (1998)
Tom Miller (b. 1947)
:''Best Travel Writing 2005'', introduction, pp. xvii-xxi, (2005)
:''A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration'', (2004) pp. 325–343.
:''Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader'', (ed.) (2003)
:''Travelers' Tales—Cuba'', (ed.) (2001)
:''Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest'' (2000)
:''Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba'' (1992)
:''The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey From South America'' (1986)
:''Arizona: The Land and the People'', (ed.) (1986)
:''On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier'' (1981)
Mikirō Sasaki (b. 1947), Japanese poet and travel essayist
:''Ajia kaidō kikō: umi wa toshi de aru'' ''(A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard, 2002)''
Chris Stewart (b. 1950)
:''Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia'' (1999)
:''A Parrot in the Pepper Tree'' (2002)
:''The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society'' (2007)
Bill Bryson (b. 1951)
:''The Palace Under the Alps'' (1985) — an early work that is more of a travel guide than a narrative.
:''Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe'' (1992)
:''Notes from a Small Island'' (1995) — travels in the United Kingdom.
:''A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail'' (1999)
:''In a Sunburned Country'' (2001)
Douglas Adams (1952–2001)
:''Last Chance to See'' (1990)
Vikram Seth (b. 1952)
:''From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet'' (1983)
Predrag Miletić (b. 1952)
:''By bicycle to Hilandar'' (2004)
Quim Monzó (b. 1952)
:''Guadalajara'' (1997)
:''Barcelona und andere Erzählungen'' (2007)
Neil Peart (b. 1952), drummer for the Canadian rock band Rush
:''The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa'' (1996)
:''Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road'' (2002) – a chronicle of motorcycle trips through North and Central America
:''Traveling Music: The Soundtrack of My Life and Times'' (2004) – a contemplative road trip
Kenn Kaufman (b. 1954)
:''Kingbird Highway: The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand'' (1997)
Rory MacLean (b. 1954)
:''Stalin’s Nose (1992)
:''The Oatmeal Ark (1997)
:''Under the Dragon (1998)
:''Next Exit Magic Kingdom (2000)
:''Falling for Icarus (2004)
:''Magic Bus (2006)
Dennison Berwick (b. 1956)
:''Savages, The Life and Killing of the Yanomami (1992)
:''Amazon'' (1990)
:''A Walk along The Ganges'' (1986)
Pico Iyer (b. 1957)
:''Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-so-Far East'' (1988)
:''Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World'' (1993)
:''Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions'' (1997)
:''Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home'' (2000) — three excellent collections of essays on the postmodern experience of travel.
Tony Horwitz (b. 1958)
:''One for the Road: An Outback Adventure'' (1987)
:''Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia'' (1991)
:''Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War'' (1998)
:''Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before'' (2002)
:''A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World'' (2008)
Jeffrey Tayler (b. 1962)
:''Siberian Dawn: A Journey Across the New Russia'' (1999)
:''Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness'' (2000)
:''Glory in a Camel's Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara'' (2003)
:''Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel'' (2005)
:''River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny'' (2006)
Karl Taro Greenfeld (b. 1964)
:''Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation'' (1995)
:''Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia'' — an exploration of the traveler/backpacker subcultures in the Far East during the 1990s by a writer who was there.
William Dalrymple (b.1965)
:''In Xanadu: A Quest'' (1989)
:''City of Djinns'' (1992)
:''From the Holy Mountain'' (1994)
:''The Age of Kali'' (1995)
:''Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India'' (2009)
Tahir Shah (b. 1966)
:''Sorcerer's Apprentice''
:''In Search of King Solomon's Mines''
:''Trail of Feathers''
:''The Caliph's House''
:''In Arabian Nights''
:''House of the Tiger King''
:''Beyond the Devil's Teeth''
J. Maarten Troost (b. 1969)
:''The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific'' (2004)
:''Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu'' (2006)
Cleo Paskal
:''Navigating Customs: New Travel Stories by 12 Writers [Less Than] 25'' (2007)
Kira Salak (b. 1971)
:''Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea'' (2001)
:''The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu'' (2004)
Tom Bissell (b. 1974)
:''Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia'' (2003)
Bishwanath Ghosh (b. 1970)
:''Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop But Never Get Off'' (2009)
Autobiogeography
Beautiful England
British Guild of Travel Writers
Dolman Best Travel Book Award (begun 2006)
Picador Travel Classics
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (ran from 1980–2004)
Centre for Travel Writing Studies - Nottingham Trent University
Studies in Travel Writing
Travel Stories
ExPatLit.com - A Literary Review for Writers Abroad
International Society for Travel Writing
"The Literature of Travel, 1700–1900" and "Essay on travel literature, from ''The Cambridge History of English and American Literature'' (1907–1921).
Historical British travel writers: an extensive open access library on the Vision of Britain site.
Literary travelogues generally exhibit a coherent narrative or aesthetic beyond the logging of dates and events as found in travel journals or a ship's log. Travel literature is closely associated with outdoor literature and the genres often overlap with no definite boundaries. Another sub-genre, invented in the 19th century, is the guide book.
History
Early examples of travel literature include Pausanias' ''Description of Greece'' in the 2nd century CE, and the travelogues of Ibn Jubayr (1145–1214) and Ibn Batutta (1304–1377), both of whom recorded their travels across the known world in detail. The travel genre was a fairly common genre in medieval Arabic literature.One of the earliest known records of taking pleasure in travel, of travelling for the sake of travel and writing about it, is Petrarch's (1304–1374) ascent of Mount Ventoux in 1336. He states that he went to the mountaintop for the pleasure of seeing the top of the famous height. His companions who stayed at the bottom he called ''frigida incuriositas'' ("a cold lack of curiosity"). He then wrote about his climb, making allegorical comparisons between climbing the mountain and his own moral progress in life.
Michault Taillement, a poet for the Duke of Burgundy, travelled through the Jura Mountains in 1430 and left us with his personal reflections, his horrified reaction to the sheer rock faces, and the terrifying thunderous cascades of mountain streams. Antoine de la Sale (c. 1388–c. 1462), author of ''Petit Jehan de Saintre'', climbed to the crater of a volcano in the Lipari Islands in 1407, leaving us with his impressions. "Councils of mad youth" were his stated reasons for going. In the mid 15th century, Gilles le Bouvier, in his ''Livre de la description des pays'', gave us his reason to travel and write: :Because many people of diverse nations and countries delight and take pleasure, as I have done in times past, in seeing the world and things therein, and also because many wish to know without going there, and others wish to see, go, and travel, I have begun this little book.
In 1589, Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616) published ''Voyages'', a foundational text of the travel literature genre.
Other later examples of travel literature include accounts of the Grand Tour. Aristocrats, clergy, and others with money and leisure time travelled Europe to learn about the art and architecture of its past. One tourism literature pioneer was Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894).
Travel literature also became popular during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) of medieval China. The genre was called 'travel record literature' (youji wenxue), and was often written in narrative, prose, essay and diary style. Travel literature authors such as Fan Chengda (1126–1193) and Xu Xiake (1587–1641) incorporated a wealth of geographical and topographical information into their writing, while the 'daytrip essay' ''Record of Stone Bell Mountain'' by the noted poet and statesman Su Shi (1037–1101) presented a philosophical and moral argument as its central purpose.
In the 18th century, travel literature was commonly known as the book of travels, which mainly consisted of maritime diaries. In 18th century England, almost every famous writer worked in the travel literature form. Captain James Cook's diaries (1784) were the equivalent of today's best sellers.
Travelogues
The Americans, Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson and William Least Heat-Moon, Welsh author Jan Morris and Englishman Eric Newby are or were widely acclaimed as travel writers although Morris is also a historian and Theroux a novelist.Travel literature often intersects with essay writing, as in V. S. Naipaul's ''India: A Wounded Civilization'', where a trip becomes the occasion for extended observations on a nation and people. This is similarly the case in Rebecca West's work on Yugoslavia, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon''.
Sometimes a writer will settle into a locality for an extended period, absorbing a sense of place while continuing to observe with a travel writer's sensibility. Examples of such writings include Lawrence Durrell's ''Bitter Lemons'', Deborah Tall's ''The Island of the White Cow'' and Peter Mayle's best-selling ''A Year in Provence'' and its sequels.
Travel and nature writing merge in many of the works by Sally Carrighar, Ivan T. Sanderson and Gerald Durrell. These authors are naturalists, who write in support of their fields of study. Charles Darwin wrote his famous account of the journey of HMS Beagle at the intersection of science, natural history and travel.
Literary travel writing also occurs when an author, famous in another field, travels and writes about his or her experiences. Examples of such writers are Samuel Johnson, Charles Dickens, Mary Wollstonecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hilaire Belloc, D. H. Lawrence, Rebecca West and John Steinbeck.
Fiction
Fictional travelogues make up a large proportion of travel literature. Although it may be desirable in some contexts to distinguish fictional from non-fictional works, such distinctions have proved notoriously difficult to make in practice, as in the famous instance of the travel writings of Marco Polo or John Mandeville. Many "fictional" works of travel literature are based on factual journeys – Joseph Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness'' and presumably, Homer's ''Odyssey'' (c. 8th cent. BCE) – while other works, though based on imaginary and even highly fantastic journeys – Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', Jonathan Swift's ''Gulliver's Travels'', Voltaire's ''Candide'' or Samuel Johnson's ''The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia'' – nevertheless contain factual elements.Jack Kerouac's ''On the Road'' (1957) and ''The Dharma Bums'' (1958) are fictionalized accounts of his travels across the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
One contemporary example of a real life journey transformed into a work of fiction is travel writer Kira Salak's novel, ''The White Mary'', which takes place in Papua New Guinea and the Congo and is largely based on her own experiences in those countries.
Travel literature in criticism
The systematic study of travel literature emerged as a legitimate field of scholarly inquiry in the mid-1990s, with its own conferences, organizations, journals, monographs, anthologies, and encyclopedias. Among the most important, pre-1995 monographs are: ''Abroad'' (1980) by Paul Fussell, an exploration of British interwar travel writing as escapism; ''Gone Primitive: Modern Intellects, Savage Minds'' (1990) by Marianna Torgovnick, an inquiry into the primitivist presentation of foreign cultures; ''Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing'' (1991) by Dennis Porter, a close look at the psychological correlatives of travel; ''Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women’s Travel Writing'' by Sara Mills, an inquiry into the intersection of gender and colonialism during the nineteenth century; ''Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation'' (1992), Mary Louise Pratt's influential study of Victorian travel writing’s dissemination of a colonial mind-set; and ''Belated Travelers'' (1994), an analysis of colonial anxiety by Ali Behdad.The study of travel writing developed most extensively in the late 1990s, encouraged by the currency of Foucauldian criticism and Edward Said's postcolonial landmark study ''Orientalism''. This growing interdisciplinary preoccupation with cultural diversity, globalization, and migration is expressed in other fields of literary study, most notably Comparative Literature. The first international travel writing conference, “Snapshots from Abroad”, organized by Donald Ross at the University of Minnesota in 1997, attracted over one hundred scholars and led to the foundation of the International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW). The first issue of ''Studies in Travel Writing'' was published the same year, edited by Tim Youngs. Annual scholarly conferences about travel writing, held in the USA, Europe and Asia, saw an unprecedented upswing in the number of published travel literature monographs and essay collections, as well as a proliferation of travel writing anthologies.
Major directions in recent travel writing scholarship include: studies about the role of gender in travel and travel writing (e.g. ''Women Travelers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze'' [1998] by Indira Ghose); explorations of the political functions of travel (e.g. ''Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s'' [2001] by Bernard Schweizer); postcolonial perspectives on travel (e.g. ''English Travel Writing: From Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations'' (2000) by Barbara Korte); and studies about the function of language in travel and travel writing (e.g. ''Across the Lines: Travel, Language, and Translation'' [2000] by Michael Cronin). Tim Youngs is a driving force behind the growth of the field, notably through the journal ''Studies in Travel Writing'', through his two co-edited volumes of essays on travel writing, ''Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing'' (2002), co-edited with T. Hulme, and ''Perspectives in Travel Writing'' (2004), co-edited with G. Hooper. Youngs also co-organized the 2005 travel writing conference, “Mobilis in Mobile”, in Hong Kong. Kristi Siegel is another prolific editor of travel writing scholarship, having edited ''Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle and Displacement'' (2002), as well as ''Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women’s Travel Writing'' (2004).
Notable travel writers and travel literature
''Note: listed by year of birth''
8th century BC
5th century BC
2nd century AD
4th century
Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310 395)
5th century
7th century
Xuanzang (602 664)
8th century
Ennin (c. 793 or 794 864), Japanese Buddhist monk who chronicled his travels in Tang China
10th century
11th century
Nasir Khusraw (1004 1088), Persian traveler in the Middle East
12th century
Abu ad-Din al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr (1145 1217)
13th century
14th century
Ibn Battuta (1304 1368 or 1369), Moroccan world traveler :''Rihla'' (1355) literally entitled: "A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling".
15th century
Afanasy Nikitin (?1474), Russian merchant, traveler and writer
16th century
17th century
18th century
19th century
20th century
21st century
See also
Notes
References
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| Coordinates | 37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N |
|---|---|
| name | Simon Winchester |
| birthname | Simon Winchester |
| birth date | September 28, 1944 |
| birth place | London, U.K. |
| age | 66 |
| education | St Catherine's College, M.A. Geology, 1966 |
| occupation | Journalist, Author |
| gender | Male |
| status | married |
| spouse | Setsuko Sato |
| credits | ''The Guardian'' |
| url | http://www.simonwinchester.com/ }} |
Early life and education
Simon Winchester was born in the autumn of 1944 in northern London. Winchester attended several boarding schools in Dorset. He spent a year hitchhiking around the United States, then in 1963 went up to St Catherine's College, Oxford to study geology. He graduated in 1966 with a degree in geology and found work with Falconbridge of Africa, a Canadian mining company. His first assignment was to work as a field geologist searching for copper deposits in Uganda.
Career
While on assignment in Uganda, Winchester happened upon a copy of James Morris' ''Coronation Everest'' – an account of the 1952 expedition which led to the first successful attempt to climb Mount Everest. Inspired by the book and with a desire to be a writer, Winchester sought career advice from Morris by mail. Morris urged Winchester to give up geology and get a job as a writer. Shortly after, Winchester left Africa and returned to England eventually finding work at ''The Journal'' in Newcastle upon Tyne.In 1969, Winchester joined ''The Guardian'', first as regional correspondent based in Newcastle upon Tyne, but was later assigned to be the Northern Ireland Correspondent. Winchester's time in Northern Ireland placed him around several events of The Troubles, including the events of Bloody Sunday and the Belfast Hour of Terror.
After leaving Northern Ireland in 1972, Winchester was briefly assigned to Calcutta before becoming ''The Guardian'''s American correspondent in Washington, D.C., where Winchester covered news ranging from the end of Richard Nixon's administration to the start of Jimmy Carter's presidency. In 1982, while working as the Chief Foreign Feature Writer for ''The Sunday Times'', Winchester was on location for the invasion of the Falklands Islands by Argentine forces. Suspected of being a spy, Winchester was held as a prisoner in Tierra del Fuego for three months.
In 1985, Winchester shifted to work as a freelance writer and travelled to Hong Kong. When Condé Nast re-branded ''Signature'' magazine as ''Condé Nast Traveler'', Winchester was appointed the Asia-Pacific Editor. Over the next decade and a half, Winchester contributed to a number of travel publications including the aforementioned ''Traveler'', as well as ''National Geographic'' and ''Smithsonian'' magazine. With the success of Winchester's books in the late 1990s, he has largely retired from journalism.
Winchester's first book, ''In Holy Terror'', was published by Faber and Faber in 1975. The book drew heavily on his first hand experiences during the turmoils in Ulster. In 1976, Winchester published his second book, ''American Heartbeat'', which dealt with his personal travels through the American heartland. Winchester's third book, ''Prison Diary'', was a recounting of his imprisonment at Tierra del Fuego during the Falklands War and, as noted by Dr Jules Smith, is responsible for his rise to prominence in the United Kingdom.
Throughout the 1980s and most of the 1990s, Winchester produced several travel books, most of which dealt with Asian and Pacific locations including Korea, Hong Kong, and the Yangtze River.
Winchester's first truly successful book was ''The Professor and the Madman'' (1998) published by Penguin UK as ''The Surgeon of Crowthorne''. Telling the story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the book was a New York Times Best Seller, and the rights to a film version were optioned by Mel Gibson; likely to be directed by John Boorman.
Though he still writes travel books, Winchester has repeated the narrative non-fiction form he used in ''The Professor and the Madman'' several times, many of which ended in books placed on best sellers lists. His 2001 book, ''The Map that Changed the World'' focused on geologist William Smith and was his second New York Times best seller. The year 2003 saw Winchester release another book on the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, ''The Meaning of Everything'', as well as the best-selling ''Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded''. Winchester followed Krakatoa's volcano with San Francisco's 1906 earth quake in ''A Crack in the Edge of the World''. ''The Man Who Loved China'' (2008) retells the life of eccentric Cambridge scholar Joseph Needham who helped to expose China to the western world.
Simon Winchester's latest book ''The Alice Behind Wonderland'' was released March 11, 2011.
On July 4, 2011, Winchester was naturalized as a United States citizen in a ceremony aboard the USS ''Constitution''.
Bibliography
Honours
Winchester was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire for "services to journalism and literature" in Queen Elizabeth II's New Year Honours list of 2006.Winchester was named an honorary fellow at St. Catherine's College, Oxford in October 2009.
Winchester received an honourary degree from Dalhousie University in October 2010.
See also
References
External links
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Robin Esrock (born 1974, Johannesburg, South Africa) is an adventure travel writer and international television personality. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Esrock has written articles for major international publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Gulf News Dubai, South China Morning Post, Cape Town Argus, Sydney Morning Herald, Vancouver Sun, Dallas Morning News, and Toronto Star. In addition, Esrock is a regular columnist for the Globe & Mail, Sympatico, and Outpost Magazine.
Robin Esrock's Official Site
Word Travels Official Site
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Word Travels on OLN
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Esrock is co-host of the 40-part TV series, Word Travels. Filmed in 36 countries, Word Travels follows the lives of two working travel writers. Word Travels is broadcast on Travel Channel International, National Geographic Adventure in Asia, Oceania, the Middle East and Europe, and on OLN and CityTV in Canada . Word Travels was filmed between 2007 and 2009. Esrock met his co-host and fellow travel writer Julia Dimon while backpacking in Koycegiz Turkey. Esrock is also the co-creator, co-developer, associate producer and co-writer of Word Travels.
Prior to his career as a travel writer, Esrock worked in the music industry for SL Feldman & Associates. His career shift was the result of a bike accident that left him with a broken kneecap and a $20,000 insurance settlement. Using this money, he backpacked around the world, writing a column for The Vancouver Sun and maintaining his website, moderngonzo.com.
Esrock has reportedly travelled to over 100 countries. He is also a public speaker, has hosted various online magazine shows and appears as a regular travel expert on Vancouver's Breakfast Television. Esrock has also been featured as a travel expert in Forbes Travel, Travel + Leisure, and interviewed in several Canadian and Australian media outlets. Esrock has cited Hunter S Thompson and Gonzo journalism as major influences in his writing, and sports the Gonzo fist tattoo on left leg.
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Joshua "Josh" Berman is a television executive. He is the co-executive producer on the TV shows ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' and ''Bones''.
Career
''CSI''
Berman has worked on the series ''CSI'' since its first season. He has worked on a number of episodes including #"Crow's Feet" #"Mea Culpa" #"Unbearable" #"Compulsion"
''Killer Instinct''
Berman developed the Fox drama series ''Deviant Behavior'', which was later renamed and broadcast under the title ''Killer Instinct''. The show was cancelled after 13 episodes were shot, of which 9 were ultimately broadcast.
''Vanished''
On June 4, 2006, Berman negotiated an early release from ''CSI'' to focus on the thriller ''Vanished'', the first project to be greenlighted from his four year pact with 20th Century Fox Television. The show, which starred Gale Harold and Ming-Na as FBI agents investigating the disappearance of a U.S. Senator's wife, premiered August 2006 on the Fox network. The show was cancelled.
''Bones''
Berman has been a writer on ''Bones'' since its third season and has written a number of episodes including #"Death in the Saddle" #"The Wannabe in the Weeds" #"The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond" #"The Twisted Bones in the Melted Truck"
''Drop Dead Diva''
''Drop Dead Diva'', created by Berman originally for Fox, premiered on Lifetime on July 12, 2009. Produced by Sony Pictures Television, the series stars stage actress Brooke Elliott as Jane, a brilliant, thoughtful and overweight attorney whose body is inhabited by the soul of a vapid fashion model, and Margaret Cho as her loyal assistant, Teri. Storyline Entertainment's Craig Zadan and Neil Meron serve as exec producers alongside Berman.
Personal life
Berman is a native of Encino. His brother, David Berman, is head researcher for ''CSI'', and occasionally plays assistant coroner "Super Dave" Phillips.
External links
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| Coordinates | 37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N |
|---|---|
| name | Pico Iyer |
| birth name | Siddharth Pico Raghavan Iyer |
| birth place | Oxford, England |
| occupation | Essayist, novelist |
| genre | Non-fiction/fiction |
| relatives | Raghavan N. Iyer (father, deceased); Nandini Iyer (mother); Hiroko Takeuchi (wife) |
| influences | Graham Greene, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau |
| awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005 }} |
Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born essayist and novelist. He is the author of numerous books on travel including ''Video Night in Kathmandu.'' His shorter pieces regularly appear in ''Time, Harper's, NYRB'' and many other publications.
Life and career
Iyer was born in Oxford, England, the son of Raghavan N. Iyer, an Oxford philosopher and Theosophist, and the religious scholar Nandini Nanak Mehta. When he was eight, his family moved to California, and for more than a decade he moved back and forth several times a year between schools and college in England and his parents' home in California. He won academic scholarships to Eton, Oxford University and Harvard — graduating with a Congratulatory Double First at Oxford, with the highest marks in the university (see official bio from Alfred A. Knopf publishers)— and taught writing and literature at Harvard before joining ''Time'' in 1982 as a writer on world affairs. Since then he has traveled widely, from North Korea to Easter Island, and from Paraguay to Ethiopia, while writing seven works of non-fiction and two novels, and basing himself in Japan, where he lives with his Japanese partner Hiroko Takeuchi, the "Lady" of his third book, and her two children.Asked if he feels rooted and accepted as a foreigner (regarding his current life in Japan) Iyer replies:
“Japan is therefore an ideal place because I never will be a true citizen here, and will always be an outsider, however long I live here and however well I speak the language. And the society around me is as comfortable with that as I am… I am not rooted in a place, I think, so much as in certain values and affiliations and friendships that I carry everywhere I go; my home is both invisible and portable. But I would gladly stay in this physical location for the rest of my life, and there is nothing in life that I want that it doesn’t have.”
Having grown up a part of — and apart from — English, American and Indian cultures, he became the rare travel writer to take the international airport itself as his subject, along with the associated jet lag, displacement and cultural minglings. He writes often of his delight in living between the cracks and outside fixed categories. Most of his books have been about trying to see from within some society or way of life — revolutionary Cuba, Sufism, Buddhist Kyoto, even global disorientation — but from the larger perspective an outsider can sometimes bring. "I am simply a fairly typical product of a movable sensibility," he wrote in 1993 in ''Harper's'', "living and working in a world that is itself increasingly small and increasingly mongrel. I am a multinational soul on a multinational globe on which more and more countries are as polyglot and restless as airports. Taking planes seems as natural to me as picking up the phone or going to school; I fold up my self and carry it around as if it were an overnight bag."
A regular essayist for ''Time'' since 1986, he writes on literature for ''The New York Review of Books''; on globalism for ''Harper's''; on travel for the ''Financial Times''; and on many other themes for the ''New York Times, National Geographic, TLS'' contributing up to a hundred articles a year to various publications. He once wrote words for accompaniment by a chamber orchestra, performed by the Auckland Chamber Orchestra before the prime minister and an Auckland audience, May 2007, and has contributed liner-notes for four Leonard Cohen albums. His books have appeared in languages such as Turkish, Russian, and Indonesian, and he writes regularly on sport, film and religion — and especially on the places where mysticism and globalism converge.
Iyer's writing goes back and forth between the monastery and the airport — "Thomas Merton on a frequent flier pass," as the Indian writer Pradeep Sebastian has written — and aims, perhaps, to bring new global energies and possibilities into non-fiction. The ''Utne Reader'' named him in 1995 as one of 100 Visionaries worldwide who could change your life, while the ''New Yorker'' observed that "As a guide to far-flung places, Pico Iyer can hardly be surpassed."
Bibliography
Books
Introductions to Books:
Graham Greene, The Complete Stories Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard Somerset Maugham, The Skeptical Romancer (editor/writer of introduction) R.K. Narayan, A Tiger for Malgudi and The Man-Eater of Malgudi Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare Frederick Prokosh, The Asiatics Donald Richie, The Inland Sea Nicolas Rothwell, Wings of the Kite-Hawk Huston Smith, Tales of Wonder Lawrence Weschler, A Wanderer in the Perfect City
Notes
References
External links
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