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Rolf Potts is an American travel writer, essayist, and author. He has written two books, Vagabonding and Marco Polo Didn't Go There , and his travel writing has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Salon.com, Slate.com, The Guardian, and World Hum. His non-travel essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, the New York Times Magazine, and the digital versions of The Nation and The Atlantic.

Potts directs the summer creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy, and he was the 2011-2012 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University.

✵ 13. October 1970
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Rolf Potts Quotes

“The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home -- and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.”

Rolf Potts

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Travel , Home , Country

“Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from”

Rolf Potts

Source: Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Problem

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