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    Travel Writing: Expert Advice from the World's Leading Travel Publisher

    By Lonely Planet

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    Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

    Bursting with invaluable advice, this inspiring and practical guide is a must for anyone who has ever yearned to turn their travels into saleable tales. Let legendary travel writer Don George show you the way.

    Discover:

    • The secrets of crafting a great travel story
    • How to conduct pre-trip and on-the-road research
    • Effective interviewing Techniques
    • How to get your name in print (and money in your bank account)
    • Quirks of writing for newspapers, magazines, online and books
    • Extensive listings of writers' resources & industry organisations
    • Interviews with established writers, editors and agents

    Authors: Don George

    About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile and digital travel products, and a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. Lonely Planet's founders, Tony and Maureen Wheeler, are leaders in championing the importance of traveling responsibly, and those values are at the core of Lonely Planet's mission to create the world's best travel content.

    TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category

    'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLonely Planet
    Release dateDec 1, 2013
    ISBN9781743603932
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    Travel Writing: Expert Advice from the World's Leading Travel Publisher
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    Lonely Planet

    Lonely Planet has gone on to become the world’s most successful travel publisher, printing over 100 million books. The guides are printed in nine different languages; English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Korean. Lonely Planet enables curious travellers to experience the world and get to the heart of a place via guidebooks and eBooks to almost every destination on the planet, an award-winning website and magazine, a range of mobile and digital travel products and a dedicated traveller community.

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      This book makes me realize that dreams of traveling the world are slim & that sharing my accounts will be boring as hell to the reader because I can't write. Yay for me! Some good tips, but not for the faint hearted.