Travel writer biography

William H.H. Murray's guidebook to the Adirondacks “kindled a thousand camp fires and taught a thousand pens how to write of nature,” inspiring droves of American city-dwellers to venture into the wild and starting a back-to-nature movement that endures to this day. Of course, Murray's slender volume was part of a great literary tradition. For more than two millennia, travel books have had enormous influence on the way we have approached the world, transforming once-obscure areas into wildly popular destinations.

A detailed selection would fill a library. So what follows is a brazenly opinionated short-list of travel classics—some notorious, some barely remembered—that have inspired armchair travelers to venture out of their comfort zone and hit the road. 

1. Herodotus, Histories (c.440 BC)

Homer's Odyssey is often referred to as the first travel narrative, creating the archetypal story of a lone wanderer, Odysseus, on a voyage f

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Popular Travel Biography Books ; The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Robert Macfarlane ; The Worm Forgives the Plough John Stewart Collis ; One Crowded Hour Tim Bowden.

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The 20th century's interwar period has been described as a heyday of travel literature when many established writers such as Graham Greene, Robert Byron, Rebecca West, Freya Stark, Peter Fleming and Evelyn Waugh were traveling and writing notable travel books.

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Paul Theroux is an American novelist and travel writer known for his highly personal observations on many locales.

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The French writer, Lucie Azema, has noted that the majority of travel writing is by men and even when women have written travel books, these tend to be forgotten.

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Paul Edward Theroux (/ θ ə ˈ r uː /; [2] born April 10, ) is an American novelist and travel writer who has written numerous books, including the travelogue The Great Railway Bazaar ().