Globe Pequot / Bradt Travel Guides
Pages: 320
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-1-78477-604-6 • Paperback • May 2019 • $19.99 • (£14.99)
Jonathan Lorie has been writing travel since 1999, first as the Editor of Traveller magazine and now for national newspapers and magazines. In 2004 he set up Travellers' Tales, Britain's leading training agency for travel writers and photographers, followed by the Travellers' Tales Festival, which brings together the world's greatest travel writers and photographers at the Royal Geographical Society in London. He has judged many travel writing awards, including the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Dolmen Prize, The Stanfords/Bradt new travel writer award and the annual competitions of The Independent, the British Guild of Travel Writers and the New Zealand travel writers' association. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
INTRODUCTION
In the Jazz Café
SECTION 1 | WRITING SKILLS
DESCRIBING THE WORLD
Chapter 1 Take me with you
Chapter 2 Make a friend
Chapter 3 Become the hero
SHAPING THE STORY
Chapter 4 Tell a story
Chapter 5 Talk to me
Chapter 6 Tell no lies
HOOKING THE READER
Chapter 7 Get in the mood
Chapter 8 Get lost
Chapter 9 Get into trouble
TAKING THE LEAP
Chapter 10 Cross the border
Chapter 11 Stay in love
Chapter 12 Take that leap
SECTION 2 | WRITING ROUTES
Chapter 13 What's Your Route?
Chapter 14 Writing Blogs
Chapter 15 Writing Articles
Chapter 16 Writing Books
Chapter 17 Professional Practice
Index
Acknowledgments
Credits