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The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.[1]
One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786) helped shape travel memoir as a genre.
^Cuddon, J. A. (1999). The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin Books. p. 937. ISBN 9780140513639.
and wealthy upper-class men to travel to significant European cities as part of their education in the arts and literature. This was known as the Grand...
of one, are travel itineraries. The construction of a travel itinerary may be assisted by the use of travelliterature, including travel journals and...
of the Western tradition. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Literature. Library resources about Literature Resources in your library Project Gutenberg...
Business travel is travel undertaken for work or business purposes, as opposed to other types of travel, such as for leisure purposes or regularly commuting...
Time travel is the hypothetical activity of traveling into the past or future. Time travel is a widely recognized concept in philosophy and fiction, particularly...
Other aspects of travelliterature include the disciplines of ethnography, geography, history, economics, and aesthetics. Travel narratives were used...
travel and pilgrimages, brought rise to the greater popularity of travelliterature from the early 13th to 14th centuries. Notable examples of travel...
drama Medieval allegory Medieval mysticism Fabliau Medieval travelliterature Arthurian literature Alexander romances Chanson de geste Chivalric romance Eddic...
artifacts. Travelliterature became popular during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) of medieval China. The genre was called 'travel record literature' (youji...
trained as a doctor, but later chose a career as a journalist and author, traveling and writing on many subjects. He wrote 89 books on science, philosophy...
kayaking, or writing about nature and the environment. Travelliterature is similar to outdoor literature but differs in that it does not always deal with the...
writer, best known for writing The Alexandria Quartet, in addition to travelliterature. Margery Durrell (1915–1916); died in infancy from diphtheria. Leslie...
travelogue. It constitutes a genre of Arabic literature. Associated with the medieval Islamic notion of "travel in search of knowledge" (الرحلة في طلب العلم)...
financial savings associated with this more economical method of travel (46%). Literature Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America...
politicks" in the early 18th century, including pamphlets, memoirs, travelliterature, political analysis, serious histories, romances, poetry, and novels...
of Abkhazia. The Land of Darkness enjoyed popularity in medieval travelliterature such as the Alexander Romance and the Travels of Sir John Mandeville...
Informal essay and travel writing was another highlight. Xu Xiake (1587–1641), a travelliterature author, published his Travel Diaries in 404,000 written...
Cook Travel Book Award originated as an initiative of Thomas Cook AG in 1980, with the aim of encouraging and rewarding the art of literary travel writing...
Song dynasty saw the rise in popularity of "travel record literature" (youji wenxue). Travelliterature combined both diary and narrative prose formats...
Travel log or Travel Log may refer to: Travelliterature, records of a traveler's experiences Travel-Log, album by JJ Cale Travel Log, a vehicle built...
Hindi literature (Hindi: हिन्दी साहित्य, romanized: hindī sāhitya) includes literature in the various Hindi languages which have different writing systems...
Time travel is a common theme in fiction, mainly since the late 19th century, and has been depicted in a variety of media, such as literature, television...
the animals in the mid and background are drawn from contemporary travelliterature, and here Bosch is appealing to "the knowledge of a humanistic and...
first tourist attractions. The lookout point was first referred to in travelliterature in 1798 in a publication by Christian August Gottlob Eberhard. One...
" (Vals, 259). In the 19th century, religious works stand out and travelliterature also appears, especially written by foreigners. The book by Antoni...
Timeline of maritime migration and exploration Trans-Saharan trade Travelliterature "Travellers on the Silk Road before the year 1000 AD - Silk-Road.com"...
narratives inherently involved travel and form a significant type of travel writing. As John Cox says in Traveling South, "travel was a necessary prelude to...