Everyone knows: California is burning. From the Inland Empire to Cascadia, wild fires litter the Golden State. So far, more than 175,000 acres have been scorched and 40 homes destroyed. Fifty miles north of San Francisco, over 7,000 homes are threatened by wild fires. One fire, the Rocky Fire, is blazing its way through Northern … Read more
Mary Louise Pratt, a professor at NYU and travel writer, coined the term “travelee” to describe travel writers who write about their native lands. Jamaica Kincaid, native to Antigua and an established travel author, wrote the 1988 essay, A Small Place, describing her feelings towards tourists and British colonialists and her native land of Antigua. … Read more
In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the author Equiano recollects on his abduction, the Middle Passage, his years as a slave and later his freedom. He recalls being ripped from his home, an African Ibo village and sold into slavery. The most horrifying details of his story were during the Middle … Read more