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The Best American Travel Writing was a yearly anthology of travel literature published in United States magazines. It was started in 2000 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin. Essays were chosen using the same procedure as other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chose about 100 article candidates ...
In the 21st century, travel literature became a genre of social media in the form of travel blogs, with travel bloggers using outlets like personal blogs, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and travel websites to convey information about their adventures, and provide advice for navigating particular countries, or for traveling generally. [66]
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) Mikiro Sasaki (born 1947), Japanese poet and travel essayist Ajia kaido kiko: umi wa toshi de aru (A Travel Journal of the Asian Seaboard, 2002) Lawrence Millman (born 1948)
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The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America is a book by travel writer Bill Bryson, chronicling his 13,978-mile (22,495-km) trip around the United States in the autumn of 1987 and spring 1988. It was Bryson's first travel book.
A 2013 literature review on the health and wellness benefits of travel experiences revealed beneficial effects of vacationing. [10] More recent studies report on the positive effects of vacations as both a passive recovery process due to removal from job stress and as the active pursuit of relaxing, pleasurable and physical activities. [11] [12 ...
[4] [5] The rise of locomotive steam-powered trains during the 1800s enabled tourists to travel more easily and quickly. [6] In the United States, 2,800 miles (4,500 km) of rail track had been completed by 1840, by 1860 all major eastern US cities were linked by rail, and by 1869 the first trans-American railroad link was completed. [7]
Letters and Notes on the Customs and Manners of the North American Indians is a two-volume travel narrative by George Catlin, an American painter, author, and traveler.The book, published in 1842 in London, was written during eight years of travel from 1832 to 1839 and contains many of Catlin’s illustrations.