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About Travel Writing: The Literary Pilgrimage
This guide provides selected course-specific resources for WR152: Travel Writing: The Literary Pilgrimage
Featured Article
- "“If I Was Going to Die I Should at Least Be Having Fun”: Travel Blogs, Meaning and Tourist Experience." Annals of Tourism Research 55 (2015): 1-14. (ScienceDirect)) Travel blogs are an under-utilised resource for researchers of tourism experiences. They can provide rich insights on how tourists express the transformational effects of their experiences for the self. This study of travel blogs by nineteen British bloggers reveals how elements of the narrative relating to self-reflection and emotions are central to the process of transforming their travel experiences into personally meaningful experiences.
Featured Resource: Boston Public Library Travel Posters
- Travel Posters, Digital Commonwealth The Boston Public Library's Print Department is home to more than 350 vintage travel posters, most dating from the 1920s-1940s, the "Golden Age of Travel."
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