Download or read book American Travel Writers, 1850-1915 written by Donald Ross and published by Dictionary of Literary Biograp. This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realism replaced the romantic attitude that had previously dominated travel writing, due in part to thepractical exigencies of tourism, photography and industrialization. Discusses cultural biases in travel writing, combining accuracy with good story telling, and how hundreds of newspapers and magazines in the last third of the century made it possible to turn travel writing into a lifelong career.