Quick, name a noted travel writer who isn't B ill B ryson

[Jenmac]

Dude won't return his publicist's phone calls. Anyone know of another travel writer who the general intelligent public has heard of?
Thanks,
harried deadliner

 

[Rob Webber]

Rick Steve?

 

[MichelleD]

Former food writer/chef Anthony Bourdain?

 

[bozarth]

Former Python Michael Palin?

 

[John_Frusciante]

Former living person SJ Perelman?

 

[TargemQ8]

Food Nerd Alton Brown? (his summer series, Feasting on Asphalt, is one of my favorite things ever)
Comdian Tony Hawks, who traveled Round Ireland witha Fridge

 

[goldfish boy]

Rick Steve?

Rick Steves plural, in case you're looking him up through google, and he should be well-known to any travel fan who has an HDTV.

 

[Garrett]

Pico Iyer?

 

[MichelleD]

There's also a guy named Matt Gross who does the NYTimes "Frugal Traveler." Very cool person.

 

[El Jefe]

Paul Theroux?

 

[TerryJ]

Rudy Maxa?

-Terry

 

[MarkOn10th]

Ford Perfect has quite a readership in some corners of the universe.

 

[TargemQ8]

I see your Paul Theroux, and raise you LOUIS Theroux!

 

[goldfish boy]

Rudy Maxa?

-Terry

Good call.

 

[zomby sneakers]

Ford Perfect has quite a readership in some corners of the universe.

eh, i prefer ford prefect. ford perfect's a dick about it.

 

[SMARTARSE]

J. Peterman?

 

[mikelibrarian]

I've alway thought of the humorist PJ O'Rourke a travel writer, although his beat was war zones. See : Holidays in Hell.

I recently skimmed a book by Bill Geist : Discovering the Peculiar Charms of Small-Town America.

Doesn't Chris Gethard qualify as a travel writer since he wrote the book Weird New Jersey?

 

[Jenmac]

Doesn't Chris Gethard qualify as a travel writer since he wrote the book Weird New Jersey?

WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT... My editor is at lunch and as soon as she returns I am going to pitch him.

Thanks, everyone!

J. Peterman?

Funny you should say that- John O'Hurley is featured in another section of our magazine!

 

[Morningstar]

Dishwasher Pete:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_Pete

 

[ProfessorKirk]

Samantha Brown of the Travel Channel.

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