ENGH231

Journeys provide excellent material for travel writing, but writing about travel deepens the experience of the journey, requiring a little research and careful reflection to make connections that aren’t possible whilst still in motion. Some travel writing strives to make the unfamiliar and strange accessible to readers, but it may also render the seemingly familiar strange and new, allowing writer and readers to see things differently. Students will have the opportunity to read a variety of forms of travel writing (from nineteenth-century travel essays to contemporary blogs and travel guides), and write about their own travels in a variety of different forms, which may include a class travel blog.

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