About Us

Human history is a record of bodies in motion. Wandering hunter-gatherers. Caravans across continents. Caravels across oceans. Exploration. Colonization. Further exploration. Settlement. And so on. Once established in a place, humankind can't seem to stay put, whether it be to explore new regions, revisit old haunts or reexamine places of origin. Men and women are, in fact, natural travelers.

Concurrently, these journeys have inspired some of the great literature of our time. Many of the world's most celebrated writers have traveled far and wide researching novels and works of non-fiction. Often the results were wonderful diaries of what they encountered along the way, later published in newspapers and magazines because of the originality of a voice or the quality of the writing. E.M. Forster's "Adrift in India," Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon," Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley: In Search of America," Joan Didion's numerous essays on America, Martha Gellhorn's dispatches from Europe for Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post are but a few notable examples.

It is these combined traditions of travel and fine writing that is at the foundation of naturaltraveler.com. From our inception, our mission has been to provide a worldwide audience with the best in travel essays, by some of the world's best writers.

Whether you are hiking the Pacific Crest Trail with John H. Ostdick, driving the highways of Virginia with Tony Tedeschi, harvesting grapes with Bill Scheller in Italy, or scaling Canada's Bugaboo Mountains with Skip Kaltenheuser, you will explore these places with writers who combine a sense of wonder with a gift for language.

We dispatch some of the best writers anywhere to cover just about everywhere. We invite you to join us on our journeys.