Travel Writing Still Not Dead (Whew!)
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.19.04 | 8:35 PM ET
In the course of reviewing five books on travel through the Middle East, all of which meet his approval, Barnaby Rogerson in the Lebanon Daily Star meditates on the state of modern travel writing. It’s a nice little riff. Here’s a sample: “As the era of mass-travel got underway in the ‘60s the focus of travel writing began to shift,” he writes. “The desire for topographical description changed as people began to see the landscapes for themselves. Those wonderful evocations of landscape and color in the works of, say, Pierre Loti, were no longer required by the modern reader, who can book a trip across the Gobi over the internet or watch a Touareg music festival on television. As the travel-industry has grown, has it left room for travel-writing? It has.”
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
