Robert N Jenkins: 4 books

In this book of articles from his travels around North America the past quarter century, Robert N. Jenkins recounts the insights he gained from experiences as diverse as stumbling upon the majesty of the Grand Tetons and flying on the Concorde at twice the speed of sound.Named the travel editor...

Travel writing is an art, and Bob Jenkins is an artist. He is a veteran of the decades when Americans greeted each Sunday morning with a newspaper account from valued journalists who traveled the world. End Bag is a fine collection of some of Jenkins' best. --David G. Molyneaux, editor, TheTravelMavens.com,...

When Robert N. Jenkins was named the travel editor of the St. Petersburg Times in 1987, he was expected to report on the entire world, not just western central Florida. But Jenkins had no passport. Which put him in the majority of Americans, as fewer than 5 percent of his countrymen then held a passport....

Over nearly a quarter-century as a travel writer, first for the former St. Petersburg (now, Tampa Bay) Times, and more recently as a freelancer, Robert N. Jenkins figures he has boarded more 60 ships to write about. Many of those trips were three-night ”cruises to nowhere’’, when a new...