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Books

Guidebooks - General

AAA Travel Guides Baedeker Blue Guides Bradt Eyewitness Guides Fodor's Frommer's Hidden Guides In Your Pocket Insight Guides Let's Go Lonely Planet Luxe City Guides Michelin Moon Rick Steves Rough Guide Time Out Wallpaper City Guides

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Guidebooks - Specialized

America’s Favorite Inns, B&Bs & Small Hotels Best Places to Kiss Globe Pequot National Geographic's Ultimate Adventure Sourcebook The Sierra Club Adventure Travel Guides Pelton, Robert Young. The World's Most Dangerous Places Schultz, Patricia. 1000 Places to See Before You Die

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Travel Memoir/Essay

Best Women's Travel Writing Conde Nast Traveler Book of Unforgettable Journeys The Best American Travel Writing Travelers' Tales Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire Baggett, Jennifer and Corbett, Holly. The Lost Girls Belliveau, Jeannette. An Amateur's Guide to the Planet Bloomfield, Steve. Africa United Botton, Alain de. The Art of Travel Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods Bryson, Bill. In a Sunburned Country Bryson, Bill. Notes From a Small Island Byrne, David. The Bicycle Diaries Byron, Robert. The Road to Oxiana Cahill, Tim. A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg Cahill, Tim. Road Fever Chatwin, Bruce. In Patagonia Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines Clarke, Stephen. Year in the Merde Dalrymple, William. City of Djinns Davidson, Robyn. Tracks Ehrlich, Gretel. Solace of Open Spaces Fenton, James. All the Wrong Places Fermor, Patrick Leigh. A Time of Gifts Foer, Franklin. How Soccer Explains the World Frazier, Ian. Great Plains Gellhorn, Martha. Travels With Myself and Another Gilbert, Elizabeth. Eat, Pray, Love Gilman, Susan Jane. Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven Gopnik, Adam. Paris to the Moon Gordon, Mary. Seeing Through Places Hampl, Patricia. A Romantic Education Harrar, Heinrich. Seven Years in Tibet Heat-Moon, William Least. Blue Highways Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast Hessler, Peter. River Town Hongo, Garrett. Volcano Horwitz, Tony. Baghdad Without a Map Horwitz, Tony. Blue Latitudes Iyer, Pico. Falling off the Map Iyer, Pico. Lady and the Monk Iyer, Pico. Video Night in Kathmandu Kapuscinski, Ryszard. The Soccer War Lewis, Norman. Golden Earth Matthiessen, Peter. The Snow Leopard Mayes, Frances. Under the Tuscan Sun Mayle, Peter. A Year in Provence McPhee, John. Coming Into the Country Miller, Henry. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare Morris, Jan. Journeys Morris, Jan. The World of Venice Morris, Jan. Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere Naipaul, V. S.. Area of Darkness Newby, Eric. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush O'Hanlon, Redmond. No Mercy O'Rourke, P.J.. Holidays in Hell Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London Potts, Rolf. Vagabonding Prechtel, Martin. Secrets of the Talking Jaguar Raban, Jonathan. Hunting Mister Heartbreak Salzman, Mark. Iron and Silk Stark, Freya. Valley of the Assasins Steinbach, Alice. Without Reservations Steinbeck, John. Travels with Charley Stone, Tom. The Summer of My Greek Taverna Strayed, Cheryl. Wild Sullivan, Robert. Cross Country Tayler, Jeffrey. Facing the Congo Theroux, Paul. Dark Star Safari Theroux, Paul. Fresh Air Fiend Theroux, Paul. The Great Railway Bazaar Theroux, Paul. The Old Patagonian Express Thesiger, Wilfred. Arabian Sands Thompson, Chuck. Smile When You're Lying Thoreau, Henry David. Walden Thubron, Colin. Shadow of the Silk Road Troost, J. Marteen. Sex Lives of Cannibals Twain, Mark. Following the Equator Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi Twain, Mark. Roughing It Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad Waugh, Evelyn. When the Going Was Good Weiner, Eric. The Geography of Bliss

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Periodicals

Blogs

My Trip Journal

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Magazine/Website - General Interest

Atlantic Monthly Daily Beast Harpers National Review New Republic New Yorker Salon Slate The Nation Time Y Yahoo Magazine List

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Magazine/Website - Food

Art Culinaire Art of Eating Cuisine Diner Journal Gastronomica Gourmet Saveur Wine Spectator

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Magazine/Website - Literary

Fourth Genre Granta Literary Bohemian Narrative Nowhere

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Magazine/Website - Specialty

Architectural Digest Cosmopolitan Economist Entertainment Weekly Esquire Fortune Glamour Maxim New York Outside People Playboy Rolling Stone Smithsonian Sports Illustrated Texas Monthly Vanity Fair Vogue

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Magazine/Website - Travel

Afar Bootsn All Budget Travel Conde Nast Traveler Forbes Traveler Gadling Geographical Globorati Go World Travel Islands Jaunted Matador Network National Geographic National Geographic Adventure National Geographic Traveler Outpost Pology Town & Country Travel Transitions Abroad Travel + Leisure Travel Mag Wanderlust World Hum X Yahoo Travel Magazine List

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Newspaper

Daily Telegraph Los Angeles Times New York Times The Guardian The Independent USA Today Washington Post Y Yahoo Newspaper List

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Reference

Craft

Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing So, Is It Done? Submit Telling True Stories Writing Creative Nonfiction Blundell, William. The Art and Craft of Feature Writing Flaherty, Francis. Elements of Story Gutkind, Lee. The Art of Creative Nonfiction Jacob, Dianne. Will Write For Food Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird Stewart, James B.. Follow the Story Zinsser, William. Inventing the Truth Zinsser, William. On Writing Well Zobel, Louise Purwin. Travel Writer's Handbook

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Directories

Agent Query CLMP Directory of Literary Magazines and Presses Directory of Little Magazines & Small Presses Editor & Publisher Yearbook Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents Literary Marketplace Writer's Market Writers' & Artists' Yearbook

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Organizations

American Press Institute American Society of Journalists and Authors Association of Authors' Representatives Council of Literary Magazines and Presses International Food Wine and Travel Writers Association National Press Foundation North American Travel Journalists Association Society of American Travel Writers Society of Professional Journalists

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Other

CiA Factbook Concierge Couchsurfing Epitourean Globe Corner Bookstore Igo Ugo Longitude Books Magellan's Oanda Seat Guru Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory travelwriters.com Trip Advisor U.S. Government, Background Notes U.S. Government, Country Studies U.S. State Department Wiki Travel Written Road McCartney, Scott. Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel

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General Resources

Link List

Gotham Reading/Resources Lists New York Times Navigator Ref Desk University of Texas Reference Yahoo Reference

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Reference

Bartleby Encyclopedia Britannica First Chapters Google Google Earth Google Maps Lexis/Nexis Library of Congress National Geographic Atlas Poets & Writers Tools for Writers Shaw Guides US Copyright Office Wikipedia

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Words/Usage

American Heritage Dictionary Associated Press Stylebook Chicago Manual of Style Elements of Style Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus (online) Oxford English Dictionary (2 volume) Oxford English Dictionary (20 volume) Oxford English Dictionary (online) Roget's II Thesaurus (alphabetized) Roget's International Thesaurus (categorized) University of Calgary Grammar Guide

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