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Early examples of travel literature include the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (generally considered a 1st century CE work; authorship is debated), Pausanias' Description of Greece in the 2nd century CE, Safarnama (Book of Travels) by Nasir Khusraw (1003-1077), the Journey Through Wales (1191) and Description of Wales (1194) by Gerald of Wales ...
Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616), English priest and travel writings compiler The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589) – a foundational text of the travel literature genre. [1] Seydi Ali Reis (1498–1563), Turkish sailor. Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries) about his voyage to India
Title page from History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), Thomas Hookham, Jr. and Charles and James Ollier, London.. History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni is a travel narrative by the English Romantic authors Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
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Literary tourists are specifically interested in how places have influenced writing and at the same time how writing has created place. In order to become a literary tourist you need only book-love and an inquisitive mindset; however, there are literary guides, literary maps, and literary tours to help you on your way.
A man once exposed to films from the future is drawn into an adventure to become part of a group of time travellers linked by a special building. 1970 Time and Again: Jack Finney: Hypnosis allows travel through time. 1970 The Year of the Quiet Sun: Wilson Tucker: A government uses a time machine to survey the future and adjust its policies ...
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.