Resources on Travel Literature & Travel Writing

Travel Literature: Secondary Sources

Bookshelf 
Badone, Ellen, and Sharon R. Roseman. Intersecting journeys: the anthropology of pilgrimage and tourism
Bentley, Jerry H.  Old World Encounters: Cross-Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre-Modern Times
Blanton, Casey. Travel Writing - The Self and the World
Campbell, Mary B.  The Witness and the Other World
 Elsner, Jas and  Rubies, Joan-Pau (eds).  Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel
Helms, Mary W.   Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance
Holland, Patrick and  Huggan, Graham. Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing
Hulme, Peter, and Tim Youngs.  The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
Kaplan, Caren.  Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement
Kowalewski, Michael. Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the Modern Literature of Travel
Leed, Eric J.  The Mind of the Traveler: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism
MacCannell, Dean. The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class
Mancall, Peter C.  Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery
Newton, Arthur Percival.  Travel and Travellers of the Middle Ages
Pagden, Anthony.  European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes - Travel Writing and Transculturation
Roberson, Susan L.  Defining Travel: Diverse Visions
Rojek, Chris. Touring Cultures
Said, Edward.  Orientalism
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang.  The Railway Journey: The Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space
Urry, John.  The Tourist Gaze
 

Booklists

Amazon: Listmania! - "Outside's 25 (Essential) Books for the Well-Read Explorer"
Amazon: Listmania! - "Literary Travels"
Amazon: Listmania! - "non-fiction books by women that inspire travel and adventure"
Amazon: Listmania! - "best travel fiction of the century"
Book Sense Travel Literature Bestseller List
Literature of Travel and Exploration
London Times: The 20 best travel books of the past century
National Geographic Travel Library
Travel Books and Travelogues - National Geographic Traveler Highlights the Best Travel Writing
World Hum’s The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time
World Hum's Top 30 Travel Books
 

Anthologies

The Best American Travel Writing 2004: Jason Wilson, Pico Iyer
The Best American Travel Writing 2005: Jamaica Kincaid, Jason Wilson
The Best American Travel Writing 2006: Tim Cahill, Jason Wilson
The Best American Travel Writing 2007: Jason Wilson and Susan Orlean
The Best American Travel Writing 2008: Anthony Bourdain and Jason Wilson
The Best American Travel Writing 2009: Simon Winchester and Jason Wilson
The Best Travel Writing 2006: True Stories from Around the World: James O'Reilly, et al
The Literary Traveler: Thomas E. Kennedy
The Oxford Book of Travel Stories: Patricia Craig


Travel Writing

A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft: Michael Shapiro
Bibliography on Travel (Janz)
Favorite Links - Written Road
Geography for Travelers & Travelography Travel News
Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer: Barbara Sjoholm
Innocents Abroad: American Encounters with the Old World
Journeys, The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing
Literary quotations on Travel and travellers
Literature Travels (course)
Methods for Teaching Travel Literature and Writing, by Eileen L. Groom
Nonfiction Travel Writing (Yahoo! Directory)
Nottingham Trent Centre for Travel Writing Studies
Nowtravelling.com
Romantic Travellers (course)
Society of American Travel Writers
Studies in Travel Writing (home)
Studies in Travel Writing: Links
Studies in Travel Writing: Publications
The Traveling Curmudgeon: Jon Winokur (book review)
Times Online - Travel & Literature
Travel Literature Through the Ages
Travel Writing (course)
Travel Writing (course)
Travel Writing Across the Disciplines: Theory and Pedagogy: Kristi Siegel, ed.
Travel Writing Tips
Travel Writing Websites
Where Is All the Good Travel Literature? - A Writer's Life - A Writer's Life - Written Road
Wikitravel
Women's Studies Digitization Project: Women's Travel Writing
World Hum | Travel Dispatches from a Shrinking Planet
World Hum | Travel | Books | Travel Book Reviews
Writing and Place | Planeta
Writing.org - Internet Resources for Travel Writers

Travel & Tourism

On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place: Lucy R. Lippard
Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century: John F. Sears
Temporary.Travel.Office
The Tourist City: Dennis R. Judd,Susan S. Fainstein
Tourism Facts
Tourism Geography (U of Haifa)
Travel Links - Voice of the Shuttle
World Travel & Tourism Council
World Tourism Organization (home)
World Tourism Organization: Facts & Figures
SPTO Tourism Toolkit - Culture and a sense of place
Leeds Met University - Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Economics of Travel & Tourism
Editor's Choice: Our Favorite Travel Blogs
Exploding travel Myths

Blogs

Blog of Henry David Thoreau
Brave New Traveler
Cool Travel Guide
Everything Everywhere
Food & Travel
Food Ways
Gridskipper
Intelligent Travel
Intrepid Travel
Literary Traveler
National Geographic Traveler
Orwell Diaries
RealTravel
Slow Travel
Student Traveler
Study Abroad Blogs
The Wild Green Yonder
Thoughts On the Table
Travel Classics
Travelography
Vagablogging
Viator
World Hum
Written Road