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title: "Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer"
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# Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer

**Brand:** rolf potts
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- **What is this?** Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer by rolf potts
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Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The World By Pen
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2023*

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     “Exotic postcard-panoramas that might once have passed for travel reportage soon become secondary to a more subjective & interactive attempt to draw connections, intuit meanings, & interpret the landscape.”Travel writing is a sliver of narrative non-fiction. Travel writing strives to incorporate & translate the experience of travel to non-travel audiences. If you need a textbook starting you in this direction, this is it.I’ll admit—I spent two weeks learning from the author about the craft of travel & memoir writing. But as a business nonfiction author myself, I want to bridge from business to other venues. This is my way. This is a great textbook to frame that transition.Rolf wrote this book when traveling was beginning to be upended by the Internet. Now, in the post-social landscape, travel has a different & unique allure. You can approximate traveling with research & open-source intelligence alone.But it's not the same. And for those us who must navigate the world, we also feel a compulsion to share it with those who don't.There’s the classic quote attributed to Saint Augustine: “The world is a book, & those who do not travel read only one page.”For me—that means I must travel.That means I must use my pen to understand not just why I travel, but how, & how that travel has transformed me. And as my travel shifts from military oriented to personal, my pen helps me navigate how to travel as a civilian.Trust me, it’s different.This is a comfortable, detailed textbook that brings back the energy & uniqueness of travel. This book is not obfuscated through the social media / internet lens. Travel post-Facebook & post-COVID, is different than the millennia before it. But some elements remain the same. The intimacy of people you meet, the uniqueness & smallness you feel at the edge of the world. Wherever that world is for you.If you intend to use the pen to navigate traveling, whether the large world or small, this is the book you need.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    An Unconventional Collection
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2021*

I actually really loved this collection of Potts’ narratives. I appreciate the he travels like no other travel writer I’ve read.  It is quirky in spots and always unpredictable.It is a different way of learning about his experiences and then to find a narrative behind the real story makes it appear as if you get two stories for the price of one.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A Great Book by a New Favorite Author
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2011*

I can't recall enjoying a book more in a long time. Detractors could point out that this book is just a bunch of his short stories, previously published in travel magazines, thrown together with a few comments. My response would be that this makes it a great book. The original stories were very good, and the commentary pulls away the veil to reveal how things really worked out, the rest of the story, if you will. The short story format makes this a great travel companion, because you can read a chapter during a flight, and put the book down for a day or two without losing a plot thread. When you put all the stories together, you realize that the book is actually about the art of travel and finding joy in life, making it much more than a group of unrelated travel tales.There's been a rash of so-called memoirs lately being revealed as partially if not fully fiction. One of the hallmarks of the genre is that the author writes himself in as a hero. Rolf, however, exposes himself as just an ordinary guy who likes to travel and see the world. He tells us how the facts would get mangled or trimmed down in order to fit the travel magazine format. He admits to being the victim of thieves, or that several versions of Shangri-La were not as nice in reality as they were in anticipation.People don't get halos and places don't get gold-plated in this book. Rolf hates to write negatives, but if he didn't enjoy a country or a place, he is straight up about it and explains why. Whether writing about the good, bad, or ugly, it's all told with a dry sense of humor and self-deprecation.You can't go wrong with this book or his other titles.

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