Items tagged with travel writing.

The World Over: A Profile of Rolf Potts

by Frank Bures

Feature

November/December 2008

Getting there may be half the fun, but for Rolf Potts, author of Marco Polo Didn’t Go There, the art of traveling—and travel writing—raises more important questions than how to go from point A to point B.

All the Things He Did Not Know: A Profile of Tom Bissell

by Frank Bures

Feature

March/April 2007

In ten years, Tom Bissell went from being a directionless dropout to the acclaimed author of four books.

The Door of the Soul: Postcard From Tuscia

by Linda Lappin

Postcard

D.H. Lawrence returned to Italy in 1927 after a soul-searching journey through Mexico, the American Southwest, Ceylon, Australia, and New Zealand. Gravely ill with tuberculosis, unaware of how little time he had left (he died three years later at the age of 44), Lawrence sought an ideal land where he might flourish as a "whole man alive" and find an antidote for the alienation of industrialized society.

Directions for Armchair Travelers

by Dalia Sofer

News and Trends

July/August 2002

In January, National Geographic Books launched a series that offers a different kind of travel book—one that uses the unique perspective of a writer to explore the larger implications of place.