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Travel Info Exchange. We've had over 35 years' experience in gathering, assessing, optimizing and presenting travel information and images in brand-name guidebooks, tour and travel brochures, advertising campaigns and other business and consumer travel communication.
http://www.infoexchange.com/ - 11 Apr 2004 - Cached

Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages (Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris 4). A wide-ranging international resource including details of recent publications, forthcoming events, work in progress, etc.
http://www.crlv.paris4.sorbonne.fr/ - 11 Apr 2004 - Cached

The Connected Traveler. Opinionated commentary, information, weblog, photography and video plus the world's first 24 hour per day world travel and culture radio station.
http://www.connectedtraveler.com/ - 12 Apr 2004 - Cached

BootsnAll.com. The ultimate resource for the independent traveller. Includes online travel stories and travelogues and travel book reviews.
http://www.bootsnall.com/ - 12 Apr 2004 - Cached

Media Kitty. A new, fast growing network uniting qualified journalists with tourism industry professionals worldwide.
http://www.mediakitty.com/ - 12 Apr 2004 - Cached

Centre International de Recherches et d'Etudes Touristiques. An evolving worldwide directory of universities and individual researchers specialising in tourism and leisure. (Text in English and French).
http://www.ciret-tourism.com/ - 14 Apr 2004 - Cached

Travel Intelligence. Agent for and publisher of quality travel writing: site includes examples of the work of their 70-odd core writers.
http://www.travelintelligence.net/ - 24 Apr 2004

Guava: Travel Magazine for Women. A spicy, new travel magazine for ladies. Filled with travel tips, tricks, last-minute travel resources, and offbeat and savvy articles to help you explore the world and get your travel on.
http://www.guavamag.com - 30 Jul 2004

Peace Corps Writers. The goal of launching this web site, as well as that of publishing its precursor, the newsletter RPCV Writers & Readers, is at the heart of the Third Goal of the Peace Corps — to “bring the world back home.” The writings of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), all their novels, short stories, essays and poetry are a positive way of educating Americans about the world, an essential Third Goal activity. The newsletter, and now the site, provide the link between the cultures of the world and our culture. We also strive to present examples of successful — as well as struggling — writers that others can follow. We promote service by our own example as we serve the Peace Corps community, as well as through the promotion of the hundreds of publications by Peace Corps writers who reflect on their Peace Corps service in their writing.
http://www.peacecorpswriters.org - 11 Feb 2006

William Beckford. 'The internet site for resources and studies on the life and works of William Beckford of Fonthill (1760-1844)
http://beckford.c18.net/ - 28 Dec 2004

Bruce Chatwin. 'This site is intended as a focal point for those interested in the life and work of Bruce Chatwin. ... This site will be moving to www.brucechatwin.com soon!'
http://www.mindspring.com/~canner/chatwin.htm - 28 Dec 2004

Olaudah Equiano. 'These web pages aim to reflect the best in Equiano scholarship. '
http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/ - 28 Dec 2004

Peter Fleming. 'Discussing the travel writer, brother of novelist Ian Fleming, and the real life inspiration for James Bond.'
http://www.catharton.net/cgi-local/authors/YaBB.cgi?board=peterfleming - 28 Dec 2004

Colm Tóibin. 'A homepage dedicated to the Irish author Colm Tóibín and his work.'
http://jurup.homepage.dk/ - 28 Dec 2004

Mark Mardon, 'In Search of Elusive Metaphors: The Art of Travel Writing'. 'Travel writing is journalism with an emphasis on place rather than events...'
http://www.samexplo.org/mardon.htm - 29 Dec 2004

Vic McInnis,'A Yank in the UK'. 'A series of articles by Vic McInnis ... who, along with his wife Barbara, and daughters Bonnie and Colleen, moved to North Yorkshire on 13 November 1998. He writes about life in the United Kingdom and what it is like to be an American among the British.'
http://members.tripod.com/~StAndrewsSociety/vic.htm - 29 Dec 2004

Jeff Holzman, 'A Little Piece of Home: Mary Seacole as Cultural Imperialist'. '... this essay will confirm that Mary Seacole Victorian "doctress," colonialist, and writer was an imperialist of a special sort. Furthermore, she was able to maintain her imperialistic "role" because she did not conform to the standard ideals of Victorian womanhood.'
http://www.wpunj.edu/~history/odonn/gse/seacole1.html - 29 Dec 2004 - Cached

Paul Theroux - interviewed by Dwight Garnier. 'Paul Theroux, like most writers, is far uglier in person than he is in photographs...'
http://www.salon.com/weekly/interview960902.html - 29 Dec 2004

Babylon Travel. 'Photos and travellers tales of magic lands, cultures and people'.
http://www.zuvuya.net/sites/babylontravel/index.asp - 29 Dec 2004

Salon Travel. Travel archives: links to articles published in separate section of salon.com site (discontinued in 2000)
http://www.salon.com/archives/travel/index.html - 29 Dec 2004

Travel-wise. 'Award-winning Travel-Wise.com offers travelers the unique perspectives of more than 100 professional travel writers.'
http://www.travel-wise.com/ - 29 Dec 2004

Travelmag. 'Travelmag's eighth year of operation, and now, thanks to Redbone's fantastic new web design, we look less like an early dinosaur from the internet's early days and more like a comprehensive forum for the finest travel writing in the world'
http://www.travelmag.co.uk/ - 29 Dec 2004

Women's Travel Tales. Section of the Journeywoman website, 'the premier travel resource for women.'
http://www.journeywoman.com/traveltales/travelstories.html - 29 Dec 2004

Culture Connect. 'Local reports, travel stories.'
http://www.cultureconnect.com/ - 29 Dec 2004

Travel-Library.com. 'Travelogues and travel information since 1993.'
http://www.travel-library.com/ - 29 Dec 2004

Destination Elsewhere. 'A unique travel writing magazine dedicated to sharing travel experiences and exploring cultures from every corner of the globe.'
http://www.destinationelsewhere.com - 5 Apr 2007

Literature of Space and Exploration (University of Houston - Clear Lake). This seminar explores classic nonfiction and science fiction concerning journeys across the earth’s deserts, to the poles, the Moon, Mars, and beyond.
http://coursesite.cl.uh.edu/HSH/Whitec/LITR/5738/ - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

French Travel Writing (University of Melbourne). This subject examines the trends in theory and practice of French travel writing.
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/HB/subjects/116-213.html - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

Twentieth-Century Women`s Travel Writing and the Technologies of Motion (University of Tromsø). This course deals with autobiographical narratives of travel written by anglophone (English, Irish and Australian) women writers during the past century.
http://www.hum.uit.no/eng/Pensumlister/kurs/e214_02_e.html - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

Writing About Travel (University of Florida). This is a composition course in which students will study travel literature while they work on their own writing skills. We will attend to questions such as why travel writing has remained popular for centuries despite the many criticisms it has received.
http://web.english.ufl.edu/courses/undergrad/2001summer_low-d.html - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

Prose Genres: Travel Writing (Department of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia). What is the relationship between geographical space and the space of the book? What are writers attempting to convey when they write of (and publish) their experiences around the globe? How have the function and form of travel writing altered over time? This course will attempt to answer these questions by examining a number of different occasions of travel writing over the past few centuries.
http://www.sfu.ca/~leith/104.htm - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

Travel Writing (University of Oklahoma). A thematic and diachronic introduction to travel writing, this seminar will assess the evolution of geographical concepts through the descriptions done by travelers and explorers.
http://geography.ou.edu/courses/6430-906pf/ - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

Contemporary Travel Writing (University of Essex). Travel writing provides some of the most powerful, elegant, and engaged texts in all contemporary literature.
http://www2.essex.ac.uk/courses/result.asp?coursecode=LT351&level=3&period=FY&yearofcourse=03 - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

Travel Writing—Fiction & Fact (University of Denver). 'This course will take a look at the long history of prose written after travel—a genre as old as the epic, but still messily alive and kicking. '
http://www.du.edu/~bkiteley/3017.html - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

Travel Writing (University of Hong Kong). 'Throughout this survey of travel writing we will be exploring the development of the genre, its relations with mainstream literature and its powerful shaping influence on western worldviews. The double focus is therefore poetical and political.'
http://www.hku.hk/english/courses2000/2045.htm - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East. ASTENE, established in 1997, encourages and promotes education and learning with particular reference to the history of travel and travellers in Egypt and the Near East.
http://www.astene.org.uk/ - 28 Dec 2004

Society of American Travel Writers. 'Now in its 49th year, SATW is a tax-exempt professional association whose purpose is to: promote responsible journalism; provide professional support and development for our members; and encourage the conservation and preservation of travel resources worldwide ... he Society works to raise the standards of the profession, guard the right of freedom to travel, and encourage conservation and preservation of historic sites and natural wonders. Believing that travel is a bridge between peoples, our earnest desire is to make and keep travel a quality experience for everyone.'
http://www.satw.org/satw/index.asp - 28 Dec 2004

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC). Based at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK, the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) is established as a research and development organisation committed to advancing the understanding of the relationships shared between tourism and culture(s). Through research, consultancy, conferences and publications the CTCC seeks to generate ideas, stimulate debate, inform policy, develop networks and contribute to best practice in planning, management and marketing relating to tourism and cultural change.
http://www.tourism-culture.com - 11 Feb 2006

Travelers' Tales. Publishers of Stories, Wit and Wisdom from Travelers around the World
http://travelerstales.com/ - 30 Jul 2004

Lonely Planet. 'We publish over 650 guidebooks in 14 different languages. We cover every corner of the planet.'
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ - 28 Dec 2004

Reaktion Books. The'Topographics'series features new writing about place. Embracing both the cultural and the natural, the city and the wilderness, it appraises the geographies people inhabit, visit, defend, destroy – and overlook. The reverse of travel literature, the books in this series do not depend on a journey to supply a plot. Instead they mingle analysis with anecdote, criticism with original expressive writing, to explore the creative collision between physical space and the human mind.
http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/list_topographics.html - 28 Dec 2004

The Globe Corner Bookstore (Harvard Square, MA). 'Carries one of North America's largest selections of books and maps for the traveller.'
http://www.globecorner.com/welcome.html - 28 Dec 2004

The Travel Bug (Vancouver, BC). 'The Travel Bug specializes in travel books, maps, accessories and luggage. We have an extensive selection of more than 10,000 book titles.'
http://www.travelbugbooks.ca/ - 28 Dec 2004

The Encounter, 1802: Art of the Flinders and Baudin Voyages.. The Art Gallery of South Australia presents a major art exhibition to commemorate the bicentenary of this historic meeting. The Encounter, 1802: Art of the Flinders and Baudin Voyages tells the fascinating story of the encounter through the eyes of the important artists on board the two voyages: William Westall (1781-1850) and Ferdinand Bauer (1760-1826) on the Investigator, and Nicolas-Martin Petit (1777-1804) and Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846) on Le Geographe.
http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/Encounter.htm - 28 Dec 2004

Enlarging the Prospects of Happiness: European Travel Writing Through the Ages.. This exhibition displays a selection of actual itineraries alongside invented accounts in order to discover what readers seek in their mental travels. Whether narrating pious pilgrimages, enlightenment voyages or exotic encounters, travel writing always aims to move readers (and to move books off the publisher's shelves). (Central Library, University of Otago, New Zealand: 21 June to 1 September, 2002).
http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/grand_tour/index.html - 28 Dec 2004

Royal Geographic Society. Its archives now open to the public: funded by a HLF grant, the Society's new learning resources include a reading room, display area and searchable online catalogue
http://www.rgs.org/ - 30 Jul 2004

The Ewell Sale Stewart Library (Philadelphia). * 'Our printed works detail many significant developments in the field of natural history. In our collection we have stunningly beautiful illustrated works from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well a lengthy runs of serial publications dating back to the 18th century. In addition, our collection incorporates a wealth of expedition literature, including both the works of distinguished scientists such as Lewis and Clark, and the published journals of amateur naturalists. Authors and artists represented in our collection include Louis Agassiz, John James Audubon, William Bartram, Mark Catesby, Charles Darwin, Conrad Gesner, John Gould, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Wilson Peale, Pierre Joseph Redoute, and Alexander Wilson.'
http://www.acnatsci.org/library/index.html - 28 Dec 2004

The Mundus Gateway. The Mundus Gateway is a web-based guide to more than four hundred collections of overseas missionary materials held in the United Kingdom. These materials, comprising the archives of British missionary societies, collections of personal papers, printed matter, photographs, other visual materials and artefacts, are held in a large number of libraries, record offices and other institutions in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
http://www.mundus.ac.uk/ - 28 Dec 2004

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (1610-1791). This site contains entire English translation of the The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, originally compiled and edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by The Burrows Brothers Company, Cleveland, throughout the latter part of the nineteenth century.
http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations/ - 28 Dec 2004

Early Encounters in North America. Painstakingly assembled from hundreds of sources, Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment documents the relationships among peoples in North America from 1534 to 1850. Available electronically either through annual subscription or as a one-time purchase of perpetual rights. It contains 100,000 pages of text with associated maps and images.
http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/products/eena.htm - 28 Dec 2004

Westward by Sea. A maritime perspective on American expansion, 1820-1890. A selection of items from Mystic Seaport's archival collections includes logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers, and published narratives of voyages and travels.
http://memory.loc.gov:8081/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/mymhihome.html - 28 Dec 2004

Women's Travel Writing,1830-1930. Collection of electronic texts. 'Although not limited to the US, our decision to emphasize American travel represents an effort to complement Indiana University's Victorian Women Writers Project (which focuses on British women, 1830-1901).'
http://etrc.lib.umn.edu/womtrav.htm - 28 Dec 2004

Corvey Collection (Sheffield Hallam University). The Corvey Collection contains 994 titles of geographical works and travel literature in English.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/schools/cs/corvey/twfset.htm - 28 Dec 2004

Travel, Tourism and Urban Growth in Miami, Florida. Explore the growth of Greater Miami through the new online scholarly archive, Travel, Tourism and Urban Growth in Greater Miami. Over 2,000 images of photos, pamphlets, plat maps, and letters are presented under the major themes of advertising, architecture, environment, land use, migration, tourism, and transportation. The Archive has a searchable index, timelines, academic essays, a bibliography, links to other useful sites, and more. The archive was created by Robin Bachin, the Charlton W. Tebeau Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami, a specialist in urban, environmental, immigration, and cultural history. It is the result of a Digital Library Fellowship awarded by the University of Miami Libraries to support faculty to undertake digitally-based projects that expand the quality and range of scholarly content on the Internet.
http://scholar.library.miami.edu/miamidigital/ - 16 May 2006

Unwilling Travellers.
http://www.univ-paris13.fr/ANGLICISTES/POIRIER/UE04M/POIRIER-UE04M02.htm - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

Guides et récits de voyage de Français en Grande-Bretagne et de Britanniques en France.
http://www.univ-paris13.fr/CRIDAF/Voyages.htm - 28 Dec 2004

Books by Victorian and Edwardian Women Travellers (1837-1910). Compiled by John Theakstone, Spring 2002
http://www.indiana.edu/~victoria/wtravelbib2.pdf - 28 Dec 2004 - Cached

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