EXPLORERS in their sailing ships and dugout canoes carefully followed the journals of those who had gone before. When their explorations went badly, they switched genres -- to Scripture. Modern ...

A sure sign of quarantine wanderlust is the desire to visit Lyon. It’s one thing to miss travel in these cooped-up times, but I’d have to be really desperate to go back there. The French city is ...

Flying from Los Angeles to New York on Sunday, I sat next to a kid not too far from my son’s age who had eight drinks in the course of a five-hour flight. I wasn’t trying to keep count, but after a ...

Patagonia has fascinated travelers and writers ever since the first European travel account by Antonio Pigafetta. The most Southern region of the American continent has been associated with the end of ...

Doha, Qatar: Qatar National Library (QNL) organised a symposium exploring the often-overlooked contributions of women to the genre of travel literature. Bringing together leading researchers and ...

It is perhaps not an overstatement to say that humans are, at their core, wanderers. Even after shedding their once nomadic lifestyles to settle down under the far-reaching societal umbrellas we see ...

THE spy-glass or powerful field-glass is a part of the equipment of every explorer, and as we read by our firesides the larger volumes of adventure and research we know that there has been brought to ...

Here’s an idea for a feel-good Christmas present -- a “benevolit” book. That’s what I’m calling this relatively new and increasingly popular genre of travel literature. They are typically narratives ...

Travel is not what it was. These days we can step on a plane in one hemisphere and step off it in another in the time it took James Cook to traverse 50 nautical miles. Or we can rise above the world ...

Bhubaneswar: The third edition of the Walking BookFairs Travel Writing Festival is set to embark on a unique literary journey ...