Don George

“Ultimately, I have come to think, travel teaches us about love. It teaches us that the very best we can do with our lives is to embrace the peoples, places, and cultures we meet with all our mind, heart, and soul, to live as fully as possible in every moment, every day. And it teaches us that this embrace is simultaneously a way of becoming whole and letting go.”
- Don George, The Way of Wanderlust

ABOUT DON GEORGE

Followers of modern travel writing will likely know Don George, one of the most prominent editors of travel writing collections of all times, a talented writer himself, and a frequent speaker on television and radio on travel and travel writing.  His career started as a travel writer for the San Francisco Examiner, then expanding to be the travel editor for the Examiner and the San Francisco Chronicle.  His long and distinguished resume includes stints as the Global Travel Editor for Lonely Planet Publications, Editor at Large for National Geographic Traveler magazine, Special Features Editor and Blogger for Gadling.com, and Editor of the Geographic Expedition’s online magazine.  He has edited a number of travel anthologies, including many that are on our list of recommended travel books.  He has written a book on travel writing for other aspiring authors, and he co-founded a prominent annual travel writers’ conference.  Don George is truly an icon in travel writing.

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GREAT QUOTES:

"There are many travelers, from Old World and New - Paul Bowles, V.S, Naipul, Paul Theroux - who revel in the shadows, and in unsettledness and dislocation; all of them give us wonders with their readiness to look unflinchingly into the dark.  Don gives us something else, healthy and cheerful and forward-looking, that tells us that, if you leave yourself at home and are eager to let the world remake you as it sees fit, you can be at home almost anywhere you go.  Home is the condition, the state of unencumbered ease, you export to everyone you visit."
- Pico Iyer, foreword to The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George


INTERESTING LINKS:

  • Don George is a co-founder of the annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photography Conference.  Book Passage is an excellent book store in Corte Madera, California, just north of San Francisco.  Click here to find more information.
  • Learn more about Don George and his work on his own website.

AN INTERVIEW WITH DON GEORGE