‘Literary History is Pretty Much One Disgruntled Traveler After Another’
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.19.08 | 11:31 AM ET
Dear American Airlines author Jonathan Miles is not the first writer to capitalize on travel frustrations, blogs the Los Angeles Times’ Christopher Reynolds. He offers several examples from literary history. Among them: “In ‘The Canterbury Tales,’ 29 bed-and-breakfast guests, all on their way to Canterbury, indulge in a marathon of oversharing that any sensible innkeeper would have nipped in the bud.” Thanks, Christopher, for allowing us another chance to celebrate the wife of Bath, the cook, the knight, all “nyne and twenty” pilgrims—just some of our favorite fictional travelers of all time.
Related on World Hum:
* 10 Greatest Fictional Travelers
* New Travel Book: ‘Dear American Airlines’
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
