Marco Polo Didn't Go There - About the Author

Rolf Potts has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of Salon, Slate, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, The New York Times Magazine, Condé Nast Traveler, The Believer, and National Public Radio. His adventures have taken him across six continents, and include piloting a fishing boat 900 miles down the Laotian Mekong, hitchhiking across Eastern Europe, traversing Israel on foot, bicycling across Burma, and driving a Land Rover from Sunnyvale, California to Ushuaia, Argentina. He has won four Lowell Thomas Awards for travel writing, and his essays have appeared in over twenty literary anthologies, including The Best Travel Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, The Best Creative Nonfiction, and several collections of travel humor. His first book was Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel.

Though he rarely stays in one place for very long, Potts feels somewhat at home in Bangkok, Cairo, Paris, New Orleans, and north-central Kansas, where he keeps a small farmhouse on thirty acres near his family. Each July he can be found in France, where he is the summer writer-in-residence at the Paris American Academy.

For more information about the business and craft of travel writing (including interviews with over one hundred working travel writers), visit rolfpotts.com/writers.

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