Comments on: Travel writing: A literary genre

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:43:04 +0000

Thanks for your comments! I really appreciate it.
I’m glad Roy requested more info. about the article I quoted in this post. You read the entire article at the P&W website here:
http://www.pw.org/content/world_over_profile_rolf_potts_0

By: Roy

Roy — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:27:27 +0000

Could you please tell me the title of this article and who wrote it?
Thank you. It find it very interesting!

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:23:28 +0000

Hey! I stumbled across this page looking for the defining features of the Travel Writing genre, and found it very helpful, cheers!
I have a presentation to give tomorrow analysis an extract of Vikram Seth’s “From Heaven Lake”, and it very much fits, as you describe it. If you haven’t read the book then check it out- It doesn’t include all the humour of perhaps the work of Bill Bryson, but looks (from an intellectual POV) at the chinese culture, from an Indian man’s perspective written for a Western audience. It is a fantastic book, and one that I would highly reccomend if you are looking into exploring travel writing as a literary genre.