 | Travel Writing by L. Peat O'Neil
Buy used from: $0.78 Next to my travel writing course, the best book on travel writing!
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 | Travel Photography by Roger Hicks
Buy used from: $3.49 For travel writers who want to earn money as photogs as well.
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 | How to Write Irresistible Query Letters by Lisa Collier Cool
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $7.10 A great book on writing queries.
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 | Writer's Digest (1-year)
Buy new: $19.96 A great resource for new and experienced travel writers.
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 | Conde Nast Traveler (1-year)
Buy new: $12.00 My favorite travel mag. I read it cover to cover each month.
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 | 2007 Writer's Market
Buy new: $16.89 / Used from: $0.01 The freelance writer's bible for travel writing markets and guidelines.
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 | Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel
Buy new: $11.97 Practical advice articles.
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 | Travel + Leisure
Buy new: $14.95 Top travel magazine...the writng doesnt' get much better than this.
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 | Coastal Living (1-year)
Buy new: $5.00 A nice travel niche publication.
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 | Bridal Guide
Buy new: $9.97 One of the top markets for honeymoon travel writing.
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 | A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration (Travelers' Tales) by Michael Shapiro
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $4.13 Travel writers dish the business.
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 | The Best American Travel Writing 2006 (The Best American Series)
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Read the best to write the best.
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 | Travel Writing (How to) by Janet Austin
Buy new: $14.24 / Used from: $5.51 Travel writing advice from Lonely Planet.
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 | The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (Modern Library Paperbacks) by Freya Stark
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.78 This is my next trip with my sister, once I make sure her life insurance is paid up.
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 | Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition by Scott Cookman
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $4.21 Note to self (and other travel writers): Never accept a press trip that includes a wooden boat, icebergs and all food sealed in lead-lined cans.
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 | One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children by David Elliot Cohen
Buy used from: $3.00 I would have left the children behind, but to each his own.
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 | The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $0.01 Two words: *Ice* and *Cave*.
There are not enough Brad Pitts in this world to drag my sister into a dark, dank, frigid, lifeless bottomless pit ... why would you want to relive your entire love life while on vacation?
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 | Walking Home: A Woman's Pilgrimage on the Appalachian Trail by Kelly Winters
Buy used from: $6.93 I had a date like this once. I don't think it was worth an entire book.
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 | Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist by Cash Peters
Buy used from: $0.25 If it can keep my sister from getting kicked out of Graceland (*again*), then load me up with advice.
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 | Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers by Evgeny Petrov
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $9.06 This was a trick entry: If you find the title of this book fascinating, then we need to have a long discussion about what makes a marketable travel article.
But a movie...
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 | The Windward Road: Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores by ARCHIE F. CARR
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $9.62 I only want to say this once: Do *not* send me any pictures from these trips.
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 | California: With Classic California Writings by Ansel Adams
Buy new: $37.12 / Used from: $3.73 Look bud, stick to taking pictures; leave the words to me.
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 | How to Make a Living As a Travel Writer by Susan Farewell
Buy used from: $0.68 Probably out of print, but worth picking up from the used book category.
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 | The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-13 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Buy used from: $9.18 I vote "yes" -- unless someone else has a better "Worst Journey" book ... i.e. "Partying with Florence Nightingale, Croatian Coast, 1848" or "Hanging with the Original Rat Pack: Feudal Europe, 1426", maybe "Witches Gone Wild, 1686, Salem".
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