{"id":4038,"date":"2009-07-30T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4038"},"modified":"2009-07-27T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T17:49:38","slug":"the-armchair-traveler-do-travel-writers-have-a-sense-of-humor-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-armchair-traveler-do-travel-writers-have-a-sense-of-humor-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armchair Traveler – Do Travel Writers Have a Sense of Humor? Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Great<\/a>When you think “travel writer,” you usually think of someone like Paul Theroux\u00a0or \u00a0Bruce Chatwin. Not exactly\u00a0 laugh riots. In fact,\u00a0they can be pretty grim. The more painful the journey and annoying their companions, the more they like it. The Great Railway Bazaar<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was Theroux’s first travel book\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0became a classic of the genre.\u00a0He celebrates the hardship and minimizes the joy of travel – increasingly so, the further he goes along the Orient Express.<\/p>\n

Theroux does excel in describing the people he meets\u00a0 in Europe\u00a0and Asia – London to \u00a0Afghanistan to \u00a0India to Japan to Siberia. Ghost Train to the Eastern Star <\/a><\/strong><\/em>was a sequel of sorts, in which Theroux\u00a0travels by train again\u00a0to\u00a0China, Vietnam,\u00a0the former Soviet Union\u00a0and sees the incredible changes 30 years have\u00a0wrought.<\/p>\n

Other masters of the travelogue as endurance test are\u00a0Bruce Chatwin (In Patagonia<\/em><\/strong><\/a>)<\/em><\/strong> and Jonathan Raban. A British writer, Raban writes about the Mississippi River in Old Glory<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. (He irritated many locally with his depiction of Davenport).<\/p>\n

So, if you find yourself in the midst of a very bad vacation, start writing – you may as well get something constructive out of it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you think “travel writer,” you usually think of someone like Paul Theroux\u00a0or \u00a0Bruce Chatwin. Not exactly\u00a0 laugh riots. In fact,\u00a0they can be pretty grim. The more painful the journey and annoying their companions, the more they like it. The Great Railway Bazaar was Theroux’s first travel book\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0became a classic[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[475,748,749,122,514],"class_list":["post-4038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-adventure","tag-hardship","tag-mishaps","tag-travel","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-138","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4038"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4072,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4038\/revisions\/4072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}