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Paul Theroux (born 1941) – prolific travel writer; author of nearly two dozen books of travel writing. The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) – Theroux's most popular travel work. The Old Patagonian Express (1979) Travelling The World - The Illustrated Travels of Paul Theroux (1990) The Happy Isles of Oceania (1992) The Pillars of Hercules (1995)
Michael Jacobs (15 October 1952 – 11 January 2014) [1] was a writer [2] of Irish and Italian ancestry, born in Genoa, with particular interest in travel, the history of art, Spain, Latin America and gastronomy.
The French writer, Lucie Azema, has noted that the majority of travel writing is by men and even when women have written travel books, these tend to be forgotten. In her book Les femmes aussi sont du voyage (Women are also travellers), she has argued that male travel writing gives an unequal, colonialist and misogynistic view of the world. [38]
Earl Thollander (born April 13, 1923, Kingsburg, California) [2] was an American artist, illustrator, author and a WWII U.S. Navy officer who is best known for his marine scene paintings, sketching, travel book writing and tour leading.
Image credits: Roberto Serra - Iguana Press / Getty Images #3 Rembrandt (July 15, 1606 — October 4, 1669) Rembrandt is regarded among the greatest portrait painters and printmakers of all time.
This work established Chatwin's reputation as a travel writer. One of his biographers, Nicholas Murray, called In Patagonia "one of the most strikingly original postwar English travel books" [8] and said that it revitalised the genre of travel writing. [9] The New York Times described it as a "little masterpiece of travel, history, and adventure."
C. Tim Cahill (writer) Erskine Caldwell; Charlotte Cameron; Robert Camuto; Helen Churchill Candee; Fran Capo; Philip Caputo; Lee Carlson; Ina Caro; Julius Chambers
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