Truth in Travel Writing
Truth in Travel Writing: A Conversation With Tim Hannigan
The conversation found us speaking about why “craft” can sometimes trump “truth,” the conscious and unconscious decisions we make with each ...
Truths in Travel Writing - Lisa Gerard-Sharp
Does some travel journalism have to be so soulless? Veteran travel writer Jan Morris believes otherwise: “I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be ...
Disguise—Trust and Truth in Travel Writing - Taylor & Francis Online
Abstract. This article contends that “disguise” has been both overlooked in studies of travel writing and is more complex than current studies ...
Disguise—Trust and Truth in Travel Writing
Disguise—Trust and Truth in Travel Writing. [Abstract] This article contends that 'disguise' has been both overlooked in studies of travel writing and is ...
Keeping it Real: Authenticity in Travel Writing
“Travel writing has always had a complex and contentious relationship with the truth. It cannot offer readers the reality of the journeys its ...
A (Partial) Defense of Travel Writing - The Hedgehog Review
Travel is a way of acquiring lifetimes; travel writing, doubly so. In travel writing, as opposed to travel, you are not limited to your own eyes, your own mind, ...
The Truth Behind Travel Writing: A Tell-All
You often write about places you don't go ... Round-ups—or a bulleted list of 10 or so destinations that fall under one theme—translate to ...
Truth and Travel Writing: Staging Authenticity in Redmond O ...
It shows how different forms of authenticity come to the surface of his narratives cyclically through a process of being asserted and then undermined. It is ...
Travel writing and the blurry line between fact and fiction
The Guardian has some solid examples of travel writers' tendency to, well, exaggerate. Everything from sailors' tales of sea monsters, to Marco ...
Women, Travel Writing, and Truth - 1st Edition - Routledge
The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken ...
The Truth About Travel Writing — As Inspired By Bill Bryson
Travel writing makes you more engaged with your surroundings. If you are curious, it truly broadens the mind.
Truth in Travel Writing: A Conversation With Tim Hannigan
Tim Hannigan is back on the podcast to discuss one of the major ethical considerations in travel writing: the truth. In this conversation ...
The truth about travel writing - PLUS: 6 surprising hacks
6 top tips if you want to be a successful travel writer, plus the reality of making a travel writing career.
Truth, Lies and Travel Writing - Taylor & Francis eBooks
The capacity of travel writers to distort the truth – amplifying their observations, claiming credit for what they never witnessed or inventing fabulous ...
All Travelers are Infiltrators: An Introduction to the Study of Travel ...
Travel writing as a genre has arguably been around for centuries, but it didn't emerge as a distinct field of academic study until the 1980s.
“Travelandia” – Never Trust a Travel Writer - Lisa Gerard-Sharp
It is a truth universally acknowledged that travel-writing bears only a tenuous relationship with the truth. Lisa Gerard-Sharp ponders the moral matrix ...
Travel writing - truth or fiction? - The Guardian
It is now widely accepted that Marco Polo, who somehow overlooked to mention the Great Wall, never stepped foot in China, but patched together his mesmerising ...
It is essential that a travel writer must always be meticulously truthful, accurate and honest. Anything short and the very purpose of travel writing is ...
Travel Writing: The Good, the Bad, and the Honest - Memoirs of Acacia
I understand the dangers, but the truth is that I spent years trying to believe that I didn't want this. I buried myself in political jobs. I wandered ...
The art of the preface: cultivating truth in eighteenth-century travel ...
The preambles I outline here suggest that the questions of veracity that plague British travel writing throughout its long history come to a head in the early ...