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| | Breaking Into Travel Writing |
 | | Travel editors at large papers sometimes are confronted with a hole - a planned story that didn't work out or a story pre-empted by other news events -- if they have your story, and it fits (i.e. | | | Travel writers who only have one story circulating aren't likely to succeed. | | | A completely revised edition of "Travel Writing" will be published by Writer's Digest Books in 2005. |
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http://www.adventuretravelwriter.com/Breakin.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited Archive Search |
| | You would not catch them at a travel writers' party, yet their stories all fit an acceptable definition of travel writing: a non-fiction work in which the author goes from point A to point B and tells us something about it. | | | What makes them different from the commissioned traveloguers, is that they set out because of an inner compulsion to do so, or are driven by some form of necessity, and their tales, therefore, have the power to reconnect us with the essential. | | | Even Claude Levi-Strauss, in his arresting introduction to Tristes Tropiques, confessed to hating travel books, before writing one that is literature of the highest order. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4233207,00.html
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| | Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter T |
| | A writer who writes a textbook has the best chance of having it published if he has teaching experience in the field he covers, knowledge of current research and the ability to write clearly. | | | The writer who intends to publish his own book may attempt to gather endorsements for his book while it is still in the manuscript stage; these testimonials can then be incorporated on the dust jacket (or cover, if the book is paperback) when the book is printed. | | | The travel article has two basic objectives: to inform the reader by way of facts and to enlighten him by way of impressions. |
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http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/t.asp
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| | travelwrite |
| | Peat O'Neill in his book Travel Writing: A Guide to Research, Writing and Selling points out that there are many different kinds of travel stories. | | | Getting the first few travel stories published if you have no previous published work can be a stiff battle. | | | They may write: "We passed through the beautiful Tuscan countryside on our way to Florence." But this says almost nothing. |
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http://www.eurotrip.com/preparation_and_packing/travel_writing.html
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| | Journeywoman - Travel Tales - Her Top Ten Travel Writing Tips |
| | Travelling free is sometimes possible if you are the writer chosen for a familiarization trip or if you are convincing enough to get the tourist authority to pay for your expenses in exchange for a story. | | | You can write from the independent female traveller's angle or from that of a physician, or both, simultaneously. | | | Journeywoman - Travel Tales - Her Top Ten Travel Writing Tips |
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http://www.journeywoman.com/traveltales/topten.html
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| | World Hum: Travel Dispatches from a Shrinking Planet |
| | Writes Haines: “The admirable grace and charity of the Sahel's forlorn people is offset by the cheapness of life there and their tolerance of the cruel -- slavery, for example, or female circumcision. | | | The book chronicles Tayler’s travels in Sahel, which Tayler describes as “the southern shore to the Saharan sand sea” in Africa. | | | As Tony put it in the New Yorker story: “Those vivid colors of the early books, once they get blended with so many other authors and editors and concerns about what the customer wants, they inevitably become gray and bland. |
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http://worldhum.com
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| | Travel Writers |
| | Essentially, a good travel story is like a good work of fiction, with a beginning, a middle and an end, characters and conflict, dialogue, telling details, a narrative arc. | | | There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party for six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love. | | | The writing sample must not exceed 2,000 words and does not have to be travel-related. |
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http://travelwriters.blogspot.com
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| | Mark Moxon, Travel Writer |
| | Travel Writing: Take your pick from the hundreds of travel tales I've written; people seem to like them, and I hope you do too. | | | Then why not try a random travel tale and see where it takes you... | | | About Me: This bit's for those who are interested enough to want to know about me and my work. |
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http://www.moxon.net
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| | Travel writing course for the freelance travel writer |
| | Do you want to finally write your book- In ONLY ONE MONTH? | | | Would you like to find out how one man started his own | | | Sounds pretty darned good - if you love to travel, like I certainly do
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http://www.freelance-writing.net/travel-writing.htm
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| | All About Travel Writing |
| | Travel Guide Writers List: free email discussion list for authors, from wannabe to pro. | | | As any guidebook author will tell you, it's hard work, and the hardest part is making a profit. | | | The Author as Brand Name : it's not vanity, it's good business. |
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http://www.infoexchange.com/Guidebooks/Guidebooks.html
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| | Travel Writing--Become a Travel Writer |
| | Certainly, other good travel writing books exist, but you can search for a long time to find them and make a decision. | | | O'Neil excels in teaching how to engage in better travel writing, with chapters like "The Travel Journal," "Structure and Pace," and "Style and Tone." In fact, these chapters offer good advice for any kind of writing...not just travel writing. | | | Few of the articles are written in a just-the-facts manner you might find in guide books. |
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http://www.ubertravel.com/travel-writing.html
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| | 116-213 French Travel Writing |
| | On completion of this subject, students should be able to perform theoretical and textual analysis of French travel writing drawing upon aspects of utopianism, cosmopolitanism, exoticism, imperialism, postcolonialism, feminism and/or ethnography in literature, to appreciate and demonstrate the complexities of this genre. | | | Focusing mainly on contemporary texts but also referring to classical French travel literature, it introduces students to a wide range of fictional and non-fictional travel narratives in French set in various geographical locations. | | | This subject examines the trends in theory and practice of French travel writing. |
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http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/subjects/116-213.html
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| | The Travails of Travel Writing |
| | Patrick Holland, a scholar from the University of Guelph in Ontario who recently co-wrote a book called Tourists With Typewriters, summed it up like this: "Travel writing, it is suggested, is reprehensible in its insensitivity, obsolete and, in the age of globalization and virtuality, redundant." | | | That, unfortunately, didn’t stop him from railing further against the writing he receives. | | | After all, travel writing as a genre contains all the hegemony, diachrony and gender politics that contemporary scholars live for. |
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http://www.citypaper.net/articles/061799/news.onmedia1.shtml
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| | Travel Writing, Brian Kiteley |
| | You should make 11 copies of these travel pieces. | | | Two centuries later, Christopher Dickey (in his 1991 book | | | I left Tangier, my birthplace, on Thursday, 2nd Rajab, 725 [1325], being at that time twenty-two [lunar] years of age, with the intention of making the Pilgrimage to the Holy House [at Mecca] and the Tomb of the Prophet [at Madina]. |
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http://www.du.edu/~bkiteley/3017.html
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| | Travel Writing - Lonely Planet Travel Guide Books |
| | Written by established travel writers and bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide is a must for anyone who has ever yearned to turn their travels into saleable tales. | | | Travel Writing - Lonely Planet Travel Guide Books | | | Being a travel writer is a dream job â“ with this guide youâre scribbling distance from the reality. |
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http://shop.lonelyplanet.com/product_detail.cfm?productID=2671&WWDGD
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| | maps, travel bookshop - world maps, travel guides, books uk - stanfords |
| | In our travel books and guides section you'll find bestselling books of travel writing and comprehensive travel guides to destinations around the world. | | | The cartography section stocks specialist items like guides on map making, cartography reading guides and books on the history of cartography from round the world. | | | In an illustrated talk at the Manchester store, Bijan and Matthew will be talking about their travels and experience of Afghanistan. |
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http://www.stanfords.co.uk
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| | Powell's Books - Travel Writing |
| | This newly designed edition of Travelers’ Tales France celebrates the culture, history, and joie de vivre of one of the most beloved — and most visited — countries on Earth. | | | A Visit to Don Otavio: A Traveller's Tale from Mexico | | | A classic in travel writing now re-published, this delightful chronicle of Bedford's journeys through Mexico following World War II wonderfully captures the landscape and people of this vast country. |
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http://www.powells.com/psection/TravelWriting.html
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| | Travel Writing as a Business |
| | The market is awash with travel writing courses and how-to books, all provided by "experts" who are probably making more money selling their knowledge than they ever did actually writing for someone else. | | | The good news is that getting your work published is easy. | | | Contracts for writing a guidebook vary greatly between publishers, with potential returns that are usually poor and occasionally good. |
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http://www.westerncanadatravel.com/travel.writing.htm
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| | Travel Writing |
| | The personal travel tale is one of the most useful preparations to any trip. | | | Home > Literature and writing > Writing (Rhetoric), collections and criticism of more than two literatures > Writing (Rhetoric) and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures | | | The age old dilemma — do you write for free to get published or do you wait to be paid before you write? |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/travel_writing
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| | Travel writing with Rolf Potts |
| | Rolf Potts' award-winning travel writing has appeared in three languages on four continents. | | | Essays from his "Vagabonding" column in Salon.com have been reprinted in several anthologies. | | | Rolf is perhaps best known for promoting the ethic of vagabonding — a way of living that makes extended, personally meaningful travel possible. |
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http://www.rolfpotts.com
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| | Travel Writing |
| | Journeywoman - Travel Tales - 10 Terrific Travel Writing Tips. | | | As one journey woman to another, she shares her travel writing know-how. | | | Lonely Planet - Destination guides, warts-and-all reports from travellers, travel writing extracts, books and the latest travel health news. |
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http://www.author-network.com/travel.html
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| | *** TravelFurther.Net - Travel Writing *** |
| | I'm not saying that anything is literary masterpiece, just a written account of some of my travels thus far. | | | I have written a small selection of articles, at left, which depict some of my adventures while travelling for work or while on vacation. | | | I am sharing them here for anyone who wishes to read them. |
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http://www.travelfurther.net/travel
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| | Links to travel writing tips on the web: Online articles written to help aspiring travel writers with pointers and tips. | | | Curt's travel writing: Stories from my travels in Mexico and Europe, as well as some miscellaneous travel topics. | | | Here is a selection of writing from my travels, as well as various articles around the web written to help aspiring travel writers with pointers and tips. |
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http://www.rosengren.net/travelwriting
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| | Writing Resources Online Directory |
| | Links to travel writing content available on writerswrite.com. | | | Collection of books about travel writing and photography available on writerswrite.com. | | | Yahoo's collection of links related to travel writing. |
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http://www.writerswrite.net/websrch3.cfm?search=travel
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| | Travel Writing - Recommended Books |
| | Easy to understand, this book covers topics from what to take on your trip to how-to sell your words and photos when you get home. | | | Lisa's book is one of the first I ever read. | | | Win a copy of Writing Travel Books and Articles ! |
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http://www.suite101.com/topic_page.cfm/4433/861
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| | English 104: Prose Genres: Travel Writing |
| | Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African, written by himself and Mary Prince, The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave | | | What are writers attempting to convey when they write of (and publish) their experiences around the globe? | | | This course will attempt to answer these questions by examining a number of different occasions of travel writing over the past few centuries. |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~leith/104.htm
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| | Powell's Books - Used Travel Writing |
| | During his extraordinary and harrowing journey, he fought off arctic wolves and polar bears, lived through ice... | | | The Silent Traveller's explorations take him this time to San Francisco — a city whose fog-draped hills and winding streets recall for him the poetic beauty and mystery of his much loved Chinese landscape. | | | Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Travel Writing on the very day they're added to our shelves. |
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http://www.powells.com/usedbooks/TravelWriting.1.html
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| | Salty Tales :: Travel Writing |
| | Below are just a few of Marianne’s travel tales. | | | Recently, she has described an eco-journey in New Zealand’s Fiordland; Manihi, a pristine atoll in French Polynesia; a whirlwind tour of Shanghai; a multi-part exploration of Puget Sound; circumnavigations of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands and Vancouver Island; and, a description of how award-winning cheese maker Natural Pastures makes its products. | | | Marianne Scott writes about her worldwide travels, afloat or on foot. |
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http://www.saltytales.com/Pages/TravelWriting.html
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| | Travel Intelligence - the Website Guide to Inspirational Travel |
| | Travel Intelligence - the Website Guide to Inspirational Travel | | | Reservations can be made direct with the hotel online, or via TI's unique one-to-one booking and advice service (see right). | | | "Travel Intelligence presents 3500 of the worlds favourite hotels and hideaways, rated and reviewed by its 120 affiliated travel writers and from leading independent guides. |
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http://www.travelintelligence.net
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| | WOMEN'S STUDIES DIGITIZATION PROJECT: WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING |
| | Our project begins in 1830, so as not to conflict with the Women Writers Project at Brown University. | | | Working with faculty and students in the departments of English, French & Italian, History & Women's Studies, Wilson Library's Electronic Text Research Center has chosen as one segment of its Women's Studies Digitization Project selected travel writings by women in the period 1830-1930. | | | We include women travellers from and to the United States, as well as selected American and European women travellers to non-Western areas. |
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http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/womtrav.htm
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| | Travel Writing |
| | Week 5: Promoting Yourself and selling your work. | | | This six-week-long course is designed for writers (or want-to-be) writers who are interested in writing and selling articles about travel. | | | It is based on Farewell's book, How to Make a Living as a Travel Writer. |
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http://www.writerscollege.com/Catalogs/travel.html
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| | Writing.org - Opportunities for Travel Writers |
| | Most major newspapers have travel sections, dozens of magazines are devoted to travel, book publishers churn out guidebooks to destinations great and small, and books by authors like Paul Theroux and Peter Mayle have helped to breathe new life into the long-dormant travel narrative or "armchair travel" genre. | | | In the "armchair travel" genre, you need two things to succeed: an interesting topic and the ability to write a nonfiction book that reads much like a novel. | | | You can reach that audience if you know your subject and can bring it to life through good writing. |
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http://www.writing.org/html/a_travel_writing_1.htm
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| | Travel writing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is characterized by a narrator, usually though not exclusively identified with the real-life author, who moves about through some selected piece of geography whilst providing commentary, either about the scenes he sees during his travels or on some other topic suggested by a triggering experience. | | | geography presented in much travel writing is confirmable in the real world. | | | Travel writing resembles the essay in that the |
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| | The Insider Secrets of Freelance Travel Writing |
| | We can't pay you for this but if we use your submission we will publish your name along with your story and will send you a free copy of the anthology. | | | into the wonderful world of freelance travel writing. | | | These blueprints aren't the theoretical creations of classroom tutors - they have been prepared by real-life, successful travel writers and reveal their experiences of working in the profession over many years. |
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http://www.freelancetravelwriter.com
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| | Travel Writing for Fun and Profit |
| | You might be like me: I have very little experience writing about these subjects, so I would stick to businesses that fall into -- for lack of a better word -- the simple category. | | | The Ten and a Half Commandmants of Writing | | | However, there are magazines out there that rarely use travel articles but might be interested in you as a "traveling writer". |
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http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/aug98/philcox.htm
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| | Freelance Travel Writing Course by Offbeatrips Travel and Tourism Journalism |
| | Freelance travel journalists must also learn how to market their work effectively. | | | A: There are still plenty of intrepid travel writers out there and some are dying to be captured by the terrorist just for the experience ;o). | | | Click HERE to learn about their background, and how their experience can help you break into the travel journalism market. |
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http://www.offbeatrips.com
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| | Round-The-World Travel Guide - Travel Writing & Photography |
| | If they won't allow you to see their real work, move on. | | | You can write your own webpages using BBEdit, Notepad, or MS Word. | | | Write about and photograph what you are interested in, and the people you meet, instead of creating another documentary, which the net is already full of! |
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http://www.travel-library.com/rtw/html/rtwwriting.html
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| | Studies in Travel Writing |
| | It welcomes essays on travel writing in its broadest as well as its conventional sense and aims to serve as a forum for discussion and debate about primary materials and methodologies. | | | Contact the publishers for subscriptions and back numbers of Studies in Travel Writing. | | | Without restriction on period or region of study, the journal allows for specific contexts of travel writing to be established and for common features to be identified. |
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http://www.erica.demon.co.uk/STW.html
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| | India Travel Writing |
| | I have travelled there several times and also lived in India for two years. | | | Travel Diary 1998 December : My first- two week trip to India. | | | Sites of Chennai : A collection of places to see and things to do in Chennai. |
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http://members.tripod.com/~jennifer_polan/india/indiatravelwebring.html
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| | Travel Writing Tips |
| | It’s heartening to read that travel booking via the Internet is actually increasing -- that’s great news for travel websites and the editors who buy content for their websites. | | | I’ll warn you first that I’m a writer, not a webmaster, so you may not find this to be a pretty site. | | | Editors I write for rarely asked me to write about domestic destinations -- I’m always getting calls like “I need a story on Cairo...how’s May for you?” I’m usually booked by the time the nice PR folks from New York call me. |
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http://www.travelwritingtips.com
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| | Index to the Journal of African Travel-Writing |
| | The site says its general aim is to publish good writing, and it certainly has succeeded. | | | Only a few of the articles are available online, but they are well worth a visit. |
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| | Travel Tajikistan - Adventure on the Roof of the World |
| | There are opportunities for alpine mountaineering, rock climbing, hiking, horse or camel riding, historical exploration, cultural experiences or simply relaxing among dramatic mountains and lakes. | | | Beautiful and remote, Tajikistan has much to offer to the mountaineer, the hiker and the independent traveller in search of remote locations and unusual cultural experiences. | | | Whether your interest is mountaineering, trekking, adventure travel or business, find the travel information that you need at Travel Tajikistan! |
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http://www.traveltajikistan.com
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| | Adventure Travel Writer |
| | Fix your travelogues and become a published author! | | | Take the trip of your life and write. | | | Founded by traveler and writer L. Peat O'Neil, Adventure Travel Writer |
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http://www.adventuretravelwriter.com
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| | Freelance Travel Writing |
| | One of my favourite songs was called "Travelling Man", a ballad dripping with the whinesome twang of a drifter who went to sea. | | | For an edgy approach to upscale travel writing, see The Nauticalian. | | | It was my knowledge of geography that got me an invitation to this exclusive enclave, a friendship with the banker, and possibly some business dealings among the Social Register set. |
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http://www.conconnect.com/writingtravel.html
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| | Sree.net: Travel Writers |
| | Many of these sites were collected at the 2001 convention of the Society of American Travel Writers, at which I presented my " Smarter Surfing: Better Use of Your Web Time " workshop. | | | Attendees made suggestions as I took them down and "published" them immediately onto my Smarter Surfing links. | | | business travel deductibility, plus self-employment issues (important for travel writers): |
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http://www.sree.net/tips/travel.html
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| | Travel Info Exchange, Inc. |
| | It's a new kind of travel website written in Optimized Hypertext™ : simple, straightforward, fast-loading, intuitive and easy to use. | | | And it's got to be exactly the way you want it, tailored and formatted to your needs. | | | We've had over 35 years' experience in gathering, assessing, optimizing and presenting travel information and images in brand-name guidebooks, tour and travel brochures, advertising campaigns and other business and consumer travel communications. |
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http://www.infoexchange.com
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| | Travel Writing 101 - written road blog |
| | It is a great place to ask travel writing questions and interact with other travelers and travel writers. | | | the inside scoop to jen leo's travel publishing world | | | Gary Crucefix, a founding editor at Fiction House, gives a good simple overview to Travel Writing on Suite101.com. |
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http://www.writtenroad.com/archives/000937.shtml
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