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Put aside your traditional paperback and come to Matador to read many first person accounts from around the world, many from Matador's "Tales from the Road" series.

Tales From The Road: Kenya, Burma, Colombia, Argentina

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SPIRIT:   Tim Patterson rounds up a new crop of evocative travel stories.  More »

Tales From the Road: Focus on Burma

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Tales From The Road: Agent Orange, Naypidyaw, Surfing Panama, Sudan, Nazis In Paraguay

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Tales From The Road: Bejing, USA, Nepal, and Siberia

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Tales From The Road: Bejing, USA, Nepal, and Siberia

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How to Write Narrative Essays Using Scenes

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TRAVEL WRITING:   Like movies, narrative essays are built out of scenes. Here's how.  More »

Ten Travels (and their Tales) that Made History

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TRAVEL WRITING:   The kind of writing that makes some travelers feel they were born at the wrong time.   More »

Tales From The Road: Greenland, USA, Nepal, India

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Narrative Travel Writing from Transitions Abroad


NEWS:   Looking for some quality travel writing to stir up your wanderlust? Check out the winners and runners up in this year's Narrative Travel Writing Contest from our friends over at Transitions Abroad.  More »

Tales From The Road: China, Vietnam, Nigeria, Mexico and Disney World


SPIRIT:   True travel gems from around the web, as collected by Tim Patterson.  More »

Great Narrative Travel Writing: "I just don’t see a lot of it in the travel blogosphere. Do you?"


TRAVEL WRITING:   I read this comment last night and wondered (and am still wondering) about various things.   More »

Back to Sender


TRAVEL WRITING:   Lola Akinmade is confronted with the energetic survivalist frenzy of Lagos, one that was sheltered away when growing up.  More »

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