Travel Writing is Dead! Long Live Travel Writing!
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 01.06.03 | 11:46 AM ET
That’s the assessment of Edward Marriott in the January issue of the UK magazine Prospect. Marriott, who has penned two travel books himself, writes that the genre reached “new heights” of popularity in the 1980s with the likes of Bruce Chatwin and Paul Theroux.
“Now, though, all the paths ahead seem to have disappeared,” he writes. “With many younger writers of travel turning to history, biography or fiction, the genre has never felt so redundant.” The crux of the problem, as Marriott sees it? “In a world where we have difficulty with the concept of authority in general, there is an increasing unwillingness to see the world through the eyes of just one person.”
Does that mean we at World Hum are redundant, too? Consider us happily redundant.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
