Travel writing in the age of the internet

(A stray thought)

Undisclosed location with goats

“A curious moral no-man’s-land” is how the late writer Jenny Diski described travel writing in an essay about voyaging to Swedish Lapland. In Diski’s case, the moral ambiguity owed to the reality that her trip was paid for by the tourist industry whose attractions she was meant to advertorialize in print. The New York Times