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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.
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)
Pages in category "Travel writing" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Best American Travel Writing was a yearly anthology of travel literature published in United States magazines. It was started in 2000 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin. Essays were chosen using the same procedure as other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chose about 100 article candidates ...
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 Bell Mountain by the noted poet and statesman Su Shi (1037–1101) presented a philosophical and moral argument as its central ...
She will turn memorable guest experiences into short stories, adding: “There is a rich literary history of travel writing, but my intention is to get the everyday holidaymaker interested in ...
C. Tim Cahill (writer) Erskine Caldwell; Charlotte Cameron; Robert Camuto; Helen Churchill Candee; Fran Capo; Philip Caputo; Lee Carlson; Ina Caro; Julius Chambers
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an Englishman named Sir John Mandeville across the Islamic world as far as India and China. The earliest-surviving text is in French, followed by translations into many other languages; the ...