Required textbooks:
The Best American Travel Writing 2014, Ed. Paul Theroux & Jason Wilson. Mariner Books, 2014. ISBN 978-0544330153

A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration, Ed. Michael Shapiro. Travelers’ Tales, 2004. ISBN 978-1932361087

The Travel Writer’s Handbook: How to Write — and Sell — Your Own Travel Experiences, Jacqueline Harmon Butler and Louise Purwin Zobel. Agate Surrey, 2012. ISBN 978-
1572841314
Read the following:
“Born on the 9th of July” by Symmes; “In the Abode of the Gods” by Tayler; “Loving Las Vegas” by Whitehead; “Open Water” by Wilsey.
From Sense of Place interviews of Miller, Matthiessen, and Morris.
From the Handbook read chapters 16, 17, and 18.

Here’s the prompt for this paper: The discussion board space is reserved this week for practice composing and evaluating query letters. Research a publication that
accepts unsolicited travel writing manuscripts and compose a query letter directed at that particular publisher. You might even research some sample letters to further
assist your planning. You need to write 430 words for that.

Also, on the last paragraph of the paper you need to cover these questions by reading the required texts and make simple just answer the questions in a brief answers
and make it on the last paragraph.
Here are the questions:
1. Would you say If you believe you can be a travel writer, you can be one.
2. Would Travel apps are fast replacing traditional travel guidebooks because they are lightweight, interactive, inexpensive to publish, and easy to update.
3. According to the readings What inspired Taylor’s trip to tibet?
4. What inspired Matthiessen’s book Wildlife in America?
5. "Born on the 9th of July" is greatly concerned with the troubled origins of what country?
6. Would Wilsey’s "Open Water" is not the kind of story that can be written in a short amount of time.
7. Morris was a part of what significant national expedition?
8. Would The "cactus story" in the Miller interview is about about a trigger happy man killed by a cactus.
9. Would Whitehead describes failing to earn admittance into his college creative writing workshops as the worst training for a writer.
10. Would Professional travel writers’ organizations, such as the North American Travel Journalists Association, or the International Food, Wine and Travel Writers
Association, often arrange special familiarization trips for their members–from the Arctic Ice Cap to the romantic Del Coronado.
You need to write 70 words for that or even less just make sure that you cover the questions in like a sentence each thats what you need. Thank you!