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    Travel Writing and Photography: from Dreams to Hard Reality
    Travel Writing and Photography: from Dreams to Hard Reality
    Travel Writing and Photography: from Dreams to Hard Reality
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    Travel Writing and Photography: from Dreams to Hard Reality

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    Unlike many other books on travel writing, the Global Travel Writers E-book “Travel Writing and Photography – from Dreams to Hard Reality” makes no promises of riches and/or a glamor-filled lifestyle. Instead, the 14 professional contributors to this E-book deliver down-to-earth, highly practical advice, drawing on a combined total of over 200 years experience in travel journalism.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlobal Travel Writers
    Release dateSep 18, 2010
    ISBN9781452360478
    Travel Writing and Photography: from Dreams to Hard Reality
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    Global Travel Writers

    Global Travel Writers is a group of 14 professional travel writers and travel photographers, all of whom have scoured the globe to bring readers unusual insights into this fascinating homeland that we call Planet Earth.

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      Loved the clear, no nonsense explanation on Travel Writing. Though dated information for 2024 audiences. You will get some golden nuggets still from this book.

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    Travel Writing and Photography - Global Travel Writers

    TRAVEL WRITING and PHOTOGRAPHY:

    FROM DREAMS TO HARD REALITY

    SECOND EDITION © Global Travel Writers 2012

    Published at Smashwords

    TABLE OF Contents:

    Chapter 1 - Preface

    Chapter 2 - Introduction: Tightrope walking In Touristan, by John Borthwick

    Chapter 3 - What skills do I need? by Philip Game

    Chapter 4 - Digging out a story, by Sheriden Rhodes

    Chapter 5 - Writing for yourself or for the reader? by Graham Simmons

    Chapter 6 - Meet your new Best Friend – National Tourism Offices, by Thomas E. King

    Chapter 7 - Cautionary Tales, by Glenn A Baker

    Chapter 8 - Hosted Famil Trips, by Roderick Eime

    Chapter 9 - Pitching to Editors, by Graham Simmons

    Chapter 10 - From An Editor’s Point Of View, by Karen Halabi

    Chapter 11 - Travel Photography by Roderick Eime

    Chapter 12 - Travel Stock Photography In The Digital Age, by Paul Dymond

    Chapter 13 - The Essence Of Travel Videography, by Pieter de Vries

    Chapter 14 - The Ethics Of Travel Writing, by Sally Hammond

    Chapter 15 - Travel Writing For New Media, by Maggie Walsh and David Schloeffel

    Chapter 16 - No Fixed Address – how to earn a living on the road, by Fiona Harper

    Chapter 17 – PROFILES OF OUR CONTRIBUTORS

    CHAPTER 1: PREFACE:

    In an age of global warming, when every flight or car trip adds heat to our planet, why would anyone travel? More pertinently, at a time when media markets are shrinking like a deflating balloon, why would anyone WRITE about travel?

    The answers are simple. Motion is the very nature of the universe – from the orbit of electrons around the nucleus of an atom to the movement of stars and planets in a galaxy.

    Travel doesn’t have to be by fossil-fuel burning means – walking, cycling and kayaking are just three other modes of transport that allow people to get out and share in the planet’s kaleidoscopic set of experiences and happenings. And that’s just for starters.

    In Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel Cat’s Cradle, the sage Bokonon says that peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. And while travel writers don’t claim to be God, they do at least have a wealth of experience, tips and knowledge to pass on to others – hopefully for a fee. Even if traditional print media as a source of income are declining in importance, the New Media are on the rise, with Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2011 (http://technorati.com/state-of-the-blogosphere/) reporting that more bloggers than ever before are now making money from their endeavours.

    The 14 contributors to this e-book have delivered material that you just will not find anywhere else, drawing on a combined total of over 200 years experience in the professions of Travel Writing and Travel Photography. We take you through the processes of digging out a story idea; using the services of national tourism offices to help research a story; pitching to editors; and much more. And Rock Traveller of the Universe Glenn A Baker provides a perspective on writing about danger-zone places – not the least danger being trying to persuade timid editors to buy your story!

    The chapter on New Media contains exclusive material and advice on the latest Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) techniques that you can use to enhance your writing’s appeal to editors and, through them, to readers. And because photography is so important, we have devoted two comprehensive chapters to travel photography for a digital age in this e-book, together with a comprehensive section on travel videography by Australia’s leading videographer Pieter de Vries.

    Finally, we emphasise that following the advice contained in this e-book WON’T make you rich overnight. However, with time and effort, it MAY WELL launch you on a profitable and richly rewarding new career path. Good luck with your endeavours!

    CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION: TIGHTROPE WALKING IN TOURISTAN, by John Borthwick

    'Travel writer: a professional person who doesn't have to be somewhere on Monday morning.' Anon.

    Definitions: there are as many of a travel writer as there are of travel writing itself. For instance, Travel writing is the beggar of literary forms: it borrows from the memoir, reportage and, most important, the novel. It is pre-eminently a narrative told in the first person …

    That’s one take on the matter, by editor Bill Buford in introducing one of Granta magazine’s special issues on Travel Writing.

    If the genre itself evades neat description, then the kind of person who writes travel evades it even more. Unless one is a remittance man or woman, or a trust fund baby, today’s ‘travel writer’ is more often (and more accurately) a travel journalist.

    The best travel journalists are, of course, very well read in the wider field of travel literature — a gado-gado of genres ranging from autobiography, diary, epistle, novel and history to anthropology, journey log, blog and much else. The least inspiring and successful travel journalists, on the other hand, have probably never opened a page of Homer, Dampier, Thessiger, Iyer, Chatwin, Raban, Theroux, Morris — to name just nine out of about nine hundred ‘greats.’

    Any travel writer who’s got the time between deadlines to converse can tell you that he or she might be modestly wealthy had they a dollar for every time some naïf told them, ‘You’ve got the best job in the world.’ The only response to this is absolute ambivalence: travel writing is the best of jobs, the worst of jobs. To someone who would set out on this romantic path, to become a ‘travel writer’ — and in particular, a freelance travel journalist — firstly, be warned. Then, marry a brain surgeon (if you don’t already need one for having chosen the occupation, you’ll soon require the subsidy from their superior income.) Alternatively, swear off having a mortgage, marriage, kids or other ‘responsible’ commitments. Finally, pray each night that you might earn a graduate’s wage by retirement age.

    The travel journalist, as a hosted, professional tourist transits a relatively new zone that has been emerging over recent centuries out of the swamp of our collective cultural desires. The virtual pan-continent of Touristan is found on no map but now subsumes, if not colonises, almost all countries. Touristan has no UN seat but its combined GNP makes it, we are told, the largest industry on Earth. It is a place where almost all relationships are determined by the fantasy of perfect leisure married to painless consumption (at

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