The Rise and Fall of Travel Writing

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Book Review| February 01 2013 The Rise and Fall of Travel Writing The Glimpse Traveler by Marianne Boruch, BLOOMINGTON: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS (BREAKAWAY BOOKS), 2011. 240 PAGES, PAPER, $19.95.The Road to Somewhere: An American Memoir by James A. Reeves, NEW YORK: W. W. NORTON & COMPANY, 2011. 411 PAGES, PAPER, $25.00.My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas by Tracy Seeley, LINCOLN: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS, 2011. 208 PAGES, PAPER, $15.95.The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road by Paul Theroux, BOSTON: MARINER BOOKS, 2012. 304 PAGES, PAPER, $14.95. Frank Izaguirre Frank Izaguirre Frank Izaguirre teaches journalism and creative nonfiction at Pittsburgh School for the Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA). He's been published in Terrain, Flashquake, and ISLE and has an essay forthcoming in the travel anthology Be There Now. When not reading, writing, or teaching, he likes to go birding. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (2013) 15 (1): 183–188. https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.15.1.0183 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Frank Izaguirre; The Rise and Fall of Travel Writing. Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction 1 February 2013; 15 (1): 183–188. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/fourthgenre.15.1.0183 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressFourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © Michigan State University Board of Trustees2013 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: REVIEW ESSAYS You do not currently have access to this content.