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      • Allen, Charles
      • Allen, Daniel
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      • Bacon, Sir Francis
      • Bell, Gertrude
      • Bird, Isabella
      • Bures, Frank
      • Bryson, Bill
      • Butcher, Tim
      • Camus, Albert
      • Canetti, Elias
      • Chesterton, G.K.
      • Clare, Horatio
      • Cole, Teju
      • Dahl, Roald
      • Dalrymple, William
      • Danziger, Nick
      • Davidson, Robyn
      • Day, Jon
      • de Botton, Alain
      • Debray, Régis
      • du Maurier, Daphne
      • Dunlop, Nic
      • Durrell, Lawrence
      • Eames, Andrew
      • Elkin, Lauren
      • Fawcett, Percy
      • Feltham, Owen
      • Fleming, Ian
      • Fleming, Peter
      • Franck, Harry A
      • Frankopan, Peter
      • Galton, Francis
      • Glazebrook, Philip
      • Goulding, Matt
      • Grann, David
      • Greene, Barbara
      • Greene, Graham
      • Grescoe, Taras
      • Hahn, Emily
      • Halliburton, Richard
      • Hemingway, Ernest
      • Hirst, Francis Wrigley
      • Hopkirk, Peter
      • Hughes, Bettany
      • Huxley, Aldous
    • i to p
      • Isherwood, Christopher
      • Iyer, Pico
      • Kapuscinski, Ryszard
      • Kassabova, Kapka
      • Kleveman, Lutz
      • Krakauer, Jon
      • Král, Petr
      • Kurlansky, Mark
      • Lansky, Doug
      • Lee, Laurie
      • Lee, Vernon (Violet Paget)
      • Levi, Carlo
      • Lewis, Norman
      • Lindqvist, Sven
      • Luiselli, Valeria
      • MacDonald, Ramsay
      • Macfarlane, Robert
      • MacLean, Rory
      • Maillart, Ella
      • Mak, Geert
      • Marías, Javier
      • McCarthy, Andrew
      • Miller, Henry
      • Morand, Paul
      • Morris, Jan
      • Neufeld, Josh
      • Newby, Eric
      • O’Shea, Stephen
      • Palin, Michael
      • Pamuk, Orhan
      • Pomerantsev, Peter
      • Potts, Rolf
      • Pritchett, V.S.
    • q to z
      • Raban, Jonathan
      • Reeves, Simon
      • Roth, Joseph
      • Salak, Kira
      • Santayana, George
      • Slessor, Tim
      • Stark, Freya
      • Stasiuk, Andrzej
      • Stevenson, Robert Louis
      • Swick, Thomas
      • Szerb, Antal
      • Theroux, Paul
      • Thompson, Craig
      • Thomson, Hugh
      • Thubron, Colin
      • Twain, Mark
      • Waugh, Evelyn
      • Webster, Jason
      • Wharton, Edith
      • Wood, Levison
      • Woodsworth, Nicholas
      • Wyndham, Richard
      • Young, Gavin
      • Zweig, Stefan
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Category: early 20th century (pre-1920)

April 13, 2017 early 20th century (pre-1920)

Article: The Economist’s editor on foreign travel in 1913

THINGS near us are seen life-size, and distance, while it enchants the imagination, destroys the reality. That is a good

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March 18, 2017 1920s / 1930s / 20th century / a to h / at sea / early 20th century (pre-1920) / four wheels / Franck, Harry A / Interwar / latin america / on the tracks / round the world / up in the air

Book: Harry Franck’s All About Going Abroad (1,411 words)

All About Going Abroad  by Harry A. Franck   Brentano’s, New York (1927) The first obvious question of the prospective

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September 10, 2016 africa / early 20th century (pre-1920) / four wheels / morocco / q to z / travelogue / Wharton, Edith

Book: Edith Wharton in Morocco

In Morocco by Edith Wharton Overripeness is…the characteristic of this rich and stagnant civilization. Buildings, people, customs, seem all about

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March 31, 2016 1920s / early 20th century (pre-1920) / four wheels / north america / road trip / united states

Article: Birth of the American road trip?

It often seemed to me that we were a luxuriously equipped expedition going forth to seek discomfort…But discomfort, after all,

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March 11, 2016 early 20th century (pre-1920)

Article: Travel ‘On the Cheap’ with Franz Kafka…guidebook writer

Our democratic age has already provided all of the conditions for easy, universal travel, but this has gone practically unnoticed.

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April 10, 2015 1920s / early 20th century (pre-1920) / George / Santayana

Essay: Santayana’s Philosophy of Travel

Enjoy the world, travel over it, and learn its ways but do not let it hold you … . To possess

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February 11, 2015 19th century / asia / china / desert / early 20th century (pre-1920) / explorer / taklamakan desert

Book: Hopkirk – Foreign Devils on the Silk Road

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road by Peter Hopkirk John Murray Among the oasis dwellers of the Taklamakan, strange legends

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