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In 18th-century Britain, travel literature was highly popular, and almost every famous writer worked in the travel literature form; [13] Gulliver's Travels (1726), for example, is a social satire imitating one, and Captain James Cook's diaries (1784) were the equivalent of today's best-sellers. [14]
A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880.The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe.
He did not travel lightly, hiring 25 porters in Sierra Leone to accompany him. He also brought along six boxes of food, two beds and chairs, mosquito nets, three suitcases, a tent, two boxes of “miscellaneous things,” a bath, a bundle of blankets, a folding table, a money box, a hammock, and an unspecified number of cases of whisky.
The genre was called 'travel record literature' (youji wenxue), and was often written in narrative, prose, essay and diary style. Travel literature authors such as Fan Chengda (1126–1193) and Xu Xiake (1587–1641) incorporated a wealth of geographical and topographical information into their writing, while the 'daytrip essay' Record of Stone ...
Paul Theroux (born 1941) – prolific travel writer; author of nearly two dozen books of travel writing. The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) – Theroux's most popular travel work. The Old Patagonian Express (1979) Travelling The World - The Illustrated Travels of Paul Theroux (1990) The Happy Isles of Oceania (1992) The Pillars of Hercules (1995)
Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897.. Twain was practically bankrupt in 1894 due to investing heavily into the failed Paige Compositor.
This quote by Ibn Battuta is a great example: “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Others on the list would make a neat travel Instagram caption! Like ...
The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through Europe and the Holy Land with a group of American travelers in 1867.