While there are women who work exclusively as travel writers, many women writers, journalists and novelists among them, have chosen at one time or another to temporarily commandeer the travel vehicle to get their ideas or dreams across.
The distinction between travel and other forms of writing, such as fiction, is barely perceptible in the work of the English novelist Rose Macaulay. Halfway through her book "The Towers of Trebizond," many readers find themselves searching through the publisher's blurb or dust-jacket notes in an effort to establish whether or not they are reading a novel or a firsthand travelogue.
Macaulay in fact only produced one travel work, "Fabled Shore," a book almost unparalleled in its influence on readers' travel patterns, inspiring thousands of people to follow the writer's itinerary: a car journey undertaken in 1948 along Spain's then semi-deserted east coast, from Port Bou south to Cape Vincent.