Thomas Swick's Paradoxically Sent Travel Writing Back To The Old Age Of Travel

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The age of travel to tourism or world evolution had “paradoxically sent travel writing back” to the old age of exploration, as the result of the world changing and travel writers changing with it because “the general opinion still hasn't change” and they're good as they were before. Even though tourism is more of an aim concerning excursions, it has brought consideration to editors’ creations. Thomas Swick expressed how agitated he was when he (and other editors) have never/cant not receive a Pulitzer throughout some paragraphs; he expressed how travel writers (in particular) has never obtained an award no matter how hard they work. Swick has proven this saying “they never give a Pulitzer to a travel writer.”; there is mostly a disadvantage

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