August 02, 2005
New travel writing portal up at TransitionsAbroad.com
My (mostly) offline July in Paris has left me lagging behind on my general travel and travel-writing blogging, so today's accouncement of Transitions Abroad's new travel writing portal is hardly breaking news to those of you in the travel blogosphere. Nonetheless, I wanted to draw attention to the work Tim Leffel has done, and to the site's many excellent features, including:
- A Travel Writing Forum (moderated by Leffel)
- Essays on Travel Writing by Travel Writers
- Interviews with Travel Writers on Travel Writing
- Travel Writers' Top Ten Book Lists
- Best Travel Writers' Blogs and Web Sites
- Travel Writing Resources and Web Sites
- Sample Writers' Guidelines for Travel Magazines and Ezines
- TransitionsAbroad.com's Travel Writing Contest
My own websites, interviews and articles appear in many places on the Transitions Abroad portal, though my only all-new content is "Rolf Potts Selects His Top-Ten Travel Books", where my favorite fiction and nonfiction travel books include:
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
- Burmese Days by George Orwell
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Video Night in Kathmandu by Pico Iyer
- The Beach by Alex Garland
- The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
For details on why these books are among my favorites, click here. For similar lists by Michael Shapiro, Jim Benning, Tim Leffel, Ayun Halliday, and Ron Mader, check out the Top-Ten index page.
Posted by Rolf on August 2, 2005 04:32 PM