1.   His book has long been a touchstone for travel writing that aspires to be literature.

2.   --------------- The best travel writing can transport readers to exotic places with each turned page, or these days with every mouse click.

3.   A new breed of intensely personal travel writing has become one of the great delights of reading in recent years.

4.   Breezy travel writing with Chaucerian panache.

5.   But his Sumatran adventures nonetheless make for a gripping bit of travel writing.

6.   From Alexander Kinglake and T.H. Lawrence to V.S. Pritchett and Jonathan Raban, the British have turned travel writing into literature.

7.   I think of poetry as a form of travel writing.

8.   I think it may be more a matter of travel writing being a literary genre in America whose time has arrived.

9.   It has defined the genre of American travel writing.

10.   Juddi Morris lives in California and specializes in humor and travel writing.