Getting about: Travel Writings of William F. Buckley Jr. Meehan Bill
Getting about: Travel Writings of William F. Buckley Jr. Meehan Bill Well known as a political commentator and the author of sixteen novels, William F. was also a superb chronicler of travel. Buckley…
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Getting about: Travel Writings of William F. Buckley Jr. Meehan Bill
Well known as a political commentator and the author of sixteen novels, William F. was also a superb chronicler of travel. Buckley Jr.
He took first place in the Magazine Article on Foreign Travel category in the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition for eight pieces written while "Concording around the world" in 1989. Getting About gathers over a hundred of his articles about journeys by boat, train, or plane, representing a lifetime of adventure around the world--from Annapolis to Zurich, from the Azores to the Virgin Islands.An elegant jetsetter with a flair for literary journalism, Buckley had few rivals in the art of travel writing. A master storyteller, he adeptly wove devices of fiction together with reportage to craft entertaining pieces full of exuberance and authority.
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