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To be called literature the work must have a coherent [[narrative]], or insights and value, beyond a mere logging of dates and events, such as [[travel diary|diary]] or [[ship's log]]. Literature that recounts [[adventure]], [[exploration]] and conquest is often grouped under travel literature, but it also has its own genre [[outdoor literature]]; these genres will often overlap with no definite boundaries. This article focuses on literature that is more akin to tourism. To be called literature the work must have a coherent [[narrative]], or insights and value, beyond a mere logging of dates and events, such as [[travel diary|diary]] or [[ship's log]]. Literature that recounts [[adventure]], [[exploration]] and conquest is often grouped under travel literature, but it also has its own genre [[outdoor literature]]; these genres will often overlap with no definite boundaries. This article focuses on literature that is more akin to tourism.
 +==Fiction==
 +:''[[fictional travelogue]], [[imaginary voyage ]]
 +[[Fiction]]al travelogues make up a large proportion of travel literature. Although it may be desirable in some contexts to distinguish [[fiction]]al from [[non-fiction]]al works, such distinctions have proved notoriously difficult to make in practice, as in the famous instance of the travel writings of [[Marco Polo]] or [[John Mandeville]]. Many "fictional" works of travel literature are based on factual journeys – [[Joseph Conrad]]'s ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' and presumably, [[Homer]]'s ''[[Odyssey]]'' (c. 8th century BCE) – while other works, though based on imaginary and even highly fantastic journeys – [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]]'s ''[[Divine Comedy]]'', [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'', [[Voltaire]]'s ''[[Candide]]'' or [[Samuel Johnson]]'s ''[[The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia]]'' – nevertheless contain factual elements.
 +
 +[[Jack Kerouac]]'s ''[[On the Road]]'' (1957) and ''[[The Dharma Bums]]'' (1958) are fictionalized accounts of his travels across the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.
 +
 +==Notable travel writers and travel literature ==
 +*[[Homer]](ca. 8th century BC)
 +*:''[[Odyssey]] —'' epic poem accounting the travels of the Greek hero, [[Odysseus]] on his voyage home from Troy.
 +*[[Lucian of Samosata]] (c. A.D. 125 – after A.D. 180)
 +*:''[[True History]] —'' documents a fantastic voyage that parodies many mythical travels recounted by other authors, such as Homer; considered to be among the first works of [[Science Fiction]].
 +*[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] (Second century [[Common Era|CE]]):
 +*:''[[Description of Greece]]''
 +*[[Decimus Magnus Ausonius]] (310{{ndash}}394 [[Common Era|CE]]):
 +*:''Mosella'' (''The Moselle'') — Describes the poet's trip to the banks of the river Moselle, then in Gaul.
 +*[[Rutilius Claudius Namatianus]] (Fl. Fifth century [[Common Era|CE]]):
 +*:''De reditu suo'' (''Concerning His Return'') — The poet describes his voyage along the Mediterranean seacoast from Rome to Gaul circa 416.
 +*[[Xuanzang]] (602 {{ndash}} 664)
 +*:''[[Great Tang Records on the Western Regions]]'' — narrative of the Buddhist monk's journey from China to India.
 +*[[Ennin]] (794 {{ndash}} 864), Japanese Buddhist monk who chronicled his travels in Tang China
 +*:''[[Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law|The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law]]''
 +*[[Nasir Khusraw]] (1004 {{ndash}} 1088), Persian traveler in the Middle East:
 +*:''[[Safarnama]]''
 +*[[Ibn Jubayr|Abu ad-Din al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr]] (1145{{ndash}} 1217):
 +*:''The Travels of Ibn Jubayr''
 +*[[Gerald of Wales]] (1146 {{ndash}} 1223)
 +*:''Itinerarium Cambriae'' (''Journey Through Wales'')
 +*[[Marco Polo]] (1254{{ndash}} 1324 or 1325), Venetian traveller to China and the Mongol Empire in the 13th century:
 +*:''[[The Travels of Marco Polo|Il Milione]]'' (1298)
 +*[[Ibn Battuta]] (1304{{ndash}} 1368 or 1369), Moroccan world traveler in the 14th century:
 +*:''[[Rihla]]'' (1355){{mdash}} literally entitled: "A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Traveling"
 +*[[Fernão Mendes Pinto]] (1509-1583), Portuguese [[exploration|explorer]] and writer:
 +*:''[[Fernão Mendes Pinto|Pilgrimage]]'' (1614){{mdash}} memoir of his travels in the Middle and Far East, Ethiopia, Arabian Sea, India and [[Japan]], as one of the first Europeans to reach it in 1542.
 +*[[Richard Hakluyt]] (c. 1552–1616):
 +*:''The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation'' (1589) — A foundational text of the travel literature genre
 +*[[Evliya Çelebi]], (1610-1683)
 +*:''[[Seyahatname]]''
 +*[[François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz]] (1623–1668):
 +*:''Les voyages et observations du sieur de La Boullaye Le gouz'' (1653 & 1657) — One of the very first true travel books.
 +*[[Matsuo Bashō]] (1644–1694)
 +
 +*[[Jonathan Swift]] (1667-1745)
 +*:''Gulliver's Travels''
 +*:''The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches''
 +*[[Samuel Johnson]] (1709–1784):
 +*:''[[A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland]]'' (1775) — The lexicographer and his friend [[James Boswell]] (1740–1795) visit [[Scotland]] in 1773.
 +*[[Laurence Sterne]] (1713–1768):
 +*:''[[A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy]]'' (1768).
 +* [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] (1743{{ndash}} 1832):
 +*:''[[Italian Journey|Italienische Reise]]'' (1816/1817)
 +*[[Thomas Jefferson]] (1743–1826)
 +*:''Travel Journals'' — Record of Jefferson's travels in France, Holland, Germany and Italy, 1784-89, included in his Complete Works with selected portions in various collections of his writings
 +*[[Mary Wollstonecraft]] (1759–1797):
 +*:''A Short Residence in Sweden'' (1796)
 +*[[Johann Gottfried Seume]] (1763–1810):
 +*:''Spaziergang nach Syrakus'' (1803)
 +*[[Jippensha Ikku]] (1765–1831)
 +*:''[[Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige]]'' (The Shank's Mare){{mdash}} one of the most famous of the [[Edo period]] ''[[michiyuki]]'' (journey) novels
 +*[[John Quincy Adams]] (1767–1848)
 +*:''Letters on Silesia: Written During a Tour Through That Country in the Years 1800, 1801'' (1804)
 +*[[James Fenimore Cooper]] (1789–1851)
 +*:''Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland'' (1836)
 +*:''Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine'' (1836)
 +*:''Gleanings in Europe: England'' (1837)
 +*[[Heinrich Heine]] (1797–1856)
 +*:''[[Reisebilder]]'' (1826-33), ''[[Harzreise]]'' (1853)
 +*[[Rifa'a el-Tahtawi]], Egyptian traveler to France
 +*:''Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz'' (1834)
 +*[[Karl Baedeker]] (1801–1859)
 +*[[George Borrow]] (1803–1881):
 +*:''[[The Bible in Spain]]'' (1843)
 +*:''[[Wild Wales]]'' (1862)
 +*[[Alexis de Tocqueville]] (1805–1859)
 +*[[Alexander Kinglake]] (1809-1891)
 +*:''[[Eothen]]'' (1844)
 +*[[Charles Dickens]] (1812–1870):
 +*:''[[American Notes]]'' (1842).
 +*:''[[Pictures from Italy]]'' (1844–1845).
 +*[[Herman Melville]] (1819–1891):
 +*:''[[Typee|Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life]]'' (1846).
 +*:''[[Omoo|Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas]]'' (1847) — Chronicles of Melville's experiences as a sailor in [[Polynesia]].
 +*[[Fran Levstik]] (1831–1887):
 +*:''Popotovanje od Litije do Čateža'' (1858) — A journey from [[Litija]] to [[Čatež]] that includes a very influential [[Slovenia]]n [[literary programme]].
 +*[[William Morris]] (1834–1896):
 +*:''Icelandic Journals'' (1911)
 +*[[Mark Twain]] (1835–1910):
 +*:''[[The Innocents Abroad]]'' (1869)
 +*:''[[Roughing It]]'' (1872)
 +*:''[[A Tramp Abroad]]'' (1880)
 +*:''[[Following the Equator]]'' (1897)
 +*[[William Dean Howells]] (1837–1920)
 +*:''Certain Delightful English Towns'' (1906)
 +*[[Henry James]] (1843–1916)
 +*:''[[A Little Tour in France]]'' (1884)
 +*:''[[English Hours]]'' (1905)
 +*:''[[The American Scene]]'' (1907)
 +*:''[[Italian Hours]]'' (1909)
 +*[[Octave Mirbeau]] (1848–1917)
 +*:''[[La 628-E8]]'' (1908)
 +*[[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850–1894):
 +*:''[[An Inland Voyage]]'' (1878)
 +*:''[[Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes]]'' (1879)
 +*:''[[The Silverado Squatters]]'' (1883)
 +*[[Theodore Roosevelt]] (1858–1919)
 +*:''Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail'' (1888)
 +*:''Through the Brazilian Wilderness'' (1914)
 +*[[Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch]] (1862–1908):
 +*:''Enchanted India'' (1898)
 +*[[Jelena Dimitrijević]] (1862–1945):
 +*:''Letters from Niš Regarding Harems'' (1897)
 +*:''Letters from Salonica on Young Turk Revolution'' (1918)
 +*:''Letters from India'' (1928)
 +*:''Letters from Egypt'' (1929)
 +*:''The New World, alias: In America for a Year'' (1934).
 +*[[Mary Kingsley]] (1862{{ndash}} 1900):
 +*:''Travels in West Africa'' (1897).
 +*[[J. Smeaton Chase]] (1864–1923)
 +*:''Yosemite Trails'' (1911)
 +*:''California Coast Trails'' (1913)
 +*:''California Desert Trails'' (1919)
 +*[[Joshua Slocum]] (1844{{ndash}}1909):
 +*:''[[Sailing Alone Around the World]]'' (1899)
 +*[[Norman Douglas]] (1868–1962):
 +*:''Old Calabria'' (1915).
 +*[[Ernest Peixotto]] (1869–1940):
 +*:''Our Hispanic Southwest'' (1916) — Contains the first usage of the [[List of ethnic slurs|ethnic slur]] "[[spic]]"
 +*[[Hilaire Belloc]] (1870–1953):
 +*:''The Path To Rome'' (1902) — A ramble by foot from central France to Rome in 1901.
 +*[[W. Somerset Maugham]] (1874–1965):
 +*:''On a Chinese Screen'' (1922) — Vignettes of China in the '30s from the master of the short story.
 +*[[Yone Noguchi]] (1875–1947)
 +*:''[[The American Diary of a Japanese Girl]]'' (1903)
 +*[[Isidora Sekulić]] (1877–1958):
 +*:''Pisma iz Norveške / Letters from Norway'' (1914)
 +*[[D. H. Lawrence]] (1885–1930):
 +*:''[[Sea and Sardinia]]'' (1921).
 +*[[Henry Vollam Morton]] (1892–1979)
 +*[[Rebecca West]] (1892–1983):
 +*:''[[Black Lamb and Grey Falcon]]'' (1941) — A 1,181-page look at [[Yugoslavia]] before the tragedies of [[World War II]] and the 1990s wars.
 +*[[Roger Poidatz|Thomas Raucat]] (1894–1976)
 +*:''L'honorable partie de campagne'' ("The honorable picnic", 1924)
 +*:''De Shang-Haï à Canton'' ("From Shanghai to Canton", 1927)
 +*[[J. Slauerhoff]] (1898–1936)
 +*:''Alleen de havens zijn ons trouw'' ("Only the Ports Are Loyal to Us", 1992 [1927–1932])
 +*[[Peter Aufschnaiter]] (1899{{ndash}} 1973):
 +*:''Eight Years in Tibet'' (1983)
 +*[[Emily Kimbrough]] (1899–1989) — writer of travel humor.
 +*:''And a Right Good Crew'' (1958)
 +*[[Gordon Sinclair]] (1900–1984):
 +*:''Khyber Caravan: Through Kashmir, Waziristan, Afghanistan, Baluchistan and Northern India'' (1936) — A somewhat curmudgeonly account of 1934 travels in British [[India]] by a later famous Canadian journalist and television personality.
 +*[[Richard Halliburton]] (1900–1939), one of the most famous explorers and adventure writers of his generation:
 +:''The Royal Road to Romance, The Flying Carpet, New Worlds to Conquer, The Glorious Adventure, Seven League Boots''
 +*[[John Steinbeck]] (1902–1968):
 +*:''[[Travels with Charley: In Search of America]]'' (1962) — An American road book describing Steinbeck's journeys with his poodle, Charley.
 +*[[Evelyn Waugh]] (1903–1966):
 +*:''Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing'' — An account of the English novelist's restless wanderings around the world in the 1930s and later.
 +*[[Robert Byron]] (1905–1941):
 +*:''The Road to Oxiana'' (1937) — travels in [[Iran|Persia]] and [[Afghanistan]]
 +*[[Laurens van der Post]] (1906–1996):
 +*:''The Lost World of the Kalahari'' (1958) — [[Auberon Waugh]] (1939–2001) described van der Post as the person in whose company he'd most like to spend an evening. This book by the South African soldier/explorer/writer suggests why.
 +*[[Robert Heinlein]] (1907–1988)
 +*:''[[Tramp Royale]]'' (1992)
 +*[[Ian Fleming]] (1908–1964):
 +*:''[[Thrilling Cities]]'' (1963)
 +*[[Paul Bowles]] (1910–1999)
 +*[[Wilfred Thesiger]] (1910–2003)
 +*[[Lawrence Durrell]] (1912–1990):
 +*:''Prospero's Cell: A Guide to the Landscape and Manners of the Island of Corcyra'' (1945) — This text describes [[Lawrence Durrell|Durrell]]'s time in [[Corfu]]. It should be read in tandem with his brother [[Gerald Durrell|Gerald]]'s ''[[My Family and Other Animals]]''.
 +*:''Reflections on a Marine Venus'' (1953) — [[Lawrence Durrell|Durrell]]'s experiences in [[Rhodes]].
 +*:''Bitter Lemons'' (1957) — [[Lawrence Durrell|Durrell]] in [[Cyprus]].
 +*[[Heinrich Harrer]] (1912–2006)
 +*[[Gavin Maxwell]] (1914–1969)
 +*[[Patrick Leigh Fermor]] (b. 1915):
 +*:''[[A Time Of Gifts]]'' (1977) — A journey by an 18 year old in 1933/4 overland from the Hook of Holland to Hungary, rewritten in old age from long lost notes.
 +*[[Roger Pilkington]] (1915–2003) — author of the "Small Boat" series
 +*:''Small Boat on the Thames'' (1966)
 +*:''Small Boat on the Moselle'' (1968)
 +*[[Camilo José Cela]] (1916–2002):
 +*:''Viaje a la Alcarria'' (1948).
 +*[[Eric Newby]] (1919–2006):
 +*:''A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush'' (1958) — Popular English travel writer.
 +*[[Lucjan Wolanowski]] (1920–2006):
 +*:''Post to [[Outback|Never-Never Land]]'' ([[Poland]], 1968){{mdash}} reports from [[Australia]];
 +*:''Heat and fever'' ([[Poland]], 1970){{mdash}} reports from the work in [[World Health Organization]] Information department in [[Geneva]], travels in [[New Delhi]], [[Bangkok]] and [[Manila]], 1967-1968.
 +*[[Gerald Durrell]] (1925–1995):
 +*:''[[My Family and Other Animals]]'' (1956) — A description of an idyllic childhood on Corfu in the 1930s by the brother of [[Lawrence Durrell]] (1912–1990). This text combines natural observations, humour, storytelling, and travel.
 +*:''Fillets of Plaice'' (1971).
 +*[[Jan Morris]] (b. 1926):
 +*:''Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere'' (2001) — Author of many works, especially about cities; prior to the 1970s her work was published under her previous name, "James Morris."
 +*[[Che Guevara]] (1928–1967):
 +*:''[[The Motorcycle Diaries]]'' (1952)
 +*[[Juan Goytisolo]] (b. 1931)
 +*[[Ted Simon]] (b. 1932):
 +*:''Jupiter's Travels'' (1979)
 +*[[Ryszard Kapuściński]] (1932–2007)
 +*:''[[Another Day of Life]]'' (1976)
 +*:''[[Football War|The Soccer War]]'' (1978)
 +*:''[[The Emperor (book)|The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat]]'' (1978)
 +*:''[[Shah of Shahs]]'' (1982)
 +*:''[[Imperium]]'' (1993)
 +*:''[[The Shadow of the Sun]]'' (2001)
 +*[[Cees Nooteboom]] (b. 1933)
 +*:''Berlijnse Notities'' (1990)
 +*:''Roads to Santiago'' (1992)
 +*:''Nootebooms Hotel'' (2002) — Dutch travel writer.
 +*[[Barbara Grizzuti Harrison]] (1934–2002)
 +*[[Rubén Caba]] (b. 1935)
 +*:''[[Por la ruta serrana del Arcipreste]]'' (1976, 1977, 1995)
 +*[[Venedict Yerofeyev]] (1938–1990):
 +*:''[[Moscow-Petushki|Moskva–Pеtushki]]'' (1973) — A Russian tale of alcohol, love, and a train ride; translated into English as ''Moscow to the End of the Line''.
 +*[[Peter Mayle]] (b. 1939)
 +*[[Colin Thubron]] (b. 1939)
 +*[[Bruce Chatwin]] (1940–1989):
 +*:''[[In Patagonia]]'' (1977).
 +*:''[[The Songlines]]'' (1987) — An English stylist of the 20th century.
 +*[[William Least Heat-Moon]] (b. 1940):
 +*:''Blue Highways: A Journey into America'' (1982)
 +*[[Frances Mayes]] (b. 1940):
 +*:''Under the Tuscan Sun'' (1996) — A memoir of buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in rural [[Tuscany]] in [[Italy]].
 +*[[Paul Theroux]] (b. 1941):
 +*:''[[The Great Railway Bazaar]]'' (1975) — Perhaps Theroux's most popular travel work.
 +*[[Jonathan Raban]] (b. 1942)
 +*[[Michael Palin]] (b. 1943)
 +*[[Julian Barnes]] (b. 1946)
 +*[[Tom Miller (travel writer)|Tom Miller]] (b. 1947)
 +*:''Best Travel Writing 2005'', introduction, pp. xvii-xxi, (2005)
 +*:''A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration'', (2004) pp. 325–343.
 +*:''Writing on the Edge: A Borderlands Reader'', (ed) (2003)
 +*:''Travelers' Tales—Cuba'', (ed) (2001)
 +*:''Jack Ruby's Kitchen Sink: Offbeat Travels Through America's Southwest'', (2000)
 +*:''Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba'', (1992)
 +*:''The Panama Hat Trail: A Journey From South America'', (1986)
 +*:''Arizona: The Land and the People'', (ed) (1986)
 +*:''On the Border: Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier'', (1981)
 +*[[Mikirō Sasaki]] (b. 1947), Japanese
 +*[[Chris Stewart (author)|Chris Stewart]] (b. 1950)
 +*:''Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia'' (1999)
 +*:''A Parrot in the Pepper Tree'' (2002)
 +*:''The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society'' (2007)
 +*[[Bill Bryson]] (b. 1951):
 +*:''The Palace Under the Alps'' (1985) — An early work that is more of a travel guide than a narrative.
 +*:''Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe'' (1992)
 +*:''[[Notes from a Small Island]]'' (1995) — Travels in the [[United Kingdom]].
 +*:''[[A Walk in the Woods|A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail]]'' (1999)
 +*:''In a Sunburned Country'' (2001)
 +*[[Vikram Seth]] (b. 1952):
 +*:''From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet'' (1983)
 +*[[Quim Monzó]] (b. 1952)
 +*[[Kenn Kaufman]] (b. 1954):
 +*[[Rory MacLean]] (b. 1954):
 +*:''Stalin’s Nose (1992)
 +*:''The Oatmeal Ark (1997)
 +*:''Under the Dragon (1998)
 +*:''Next Exit Magic Kingdom (2000)
 +*:''Falling for Icarus (2004)
 +*:''Magic Bus (2006)
 +*[[Paul Ruffino]] (b. 1956)
 +*[[Dennison Berwick]] (b. 1956)
 +*:''Savages, The Life and Killing of the Yanomami (1992)
 +*:''Amazon'' (1990)
 +*:''A Walk along The Ganges'' (1986)
 +*[[Pico Iyer]] (b. 1957):
 +*:''[[Video Night in Kathmandu: And Other Reports from the Not-so-Far East]]'' (1988),
 +*:''Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World'' (1993)
 +*:''[[Tropical Classical: Essays from Several Directions]]'' (1997),
 +*:''[[Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home]]'' (2000) — Three excellent collections of essays on the postmodern experience of travel.
 +*[[Tony Horwitz]] (b. 1959):
 +*:''One for the Road: An Outback Adventure'' (1987)
 +*:''Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia'' (1991)
 +*:''[[Confederates in the Attic|Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War]]'' (1998)
 +*:''[[Blue Latitudes|Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before]]'' (2002)
 +*:''A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World'' (2008)
 +*[[Jeffrey Tayler]] (b. 1962)
 +*:''Siberian Dawn: A Journey Across the New Russia'' (1999)
 +*:''Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness'' (2000)
 +*:''Glory in a Camel's Eye: Trekking Through the Moroccan Sahara'' (2003)
 +*:''Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat, and Camel'' (2005)
 +*:''River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny'' (2006)
 +*[[Karl Taro Greenfeld]] (b. 1964):
 +*:''[[Speed Tribes|Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan's Next Generation]]'' (1995),
 +*:''[[Standard Deviations: Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia]]'' — An exploration of the traveler/backpacker subcultures in the Far East during the 1990s by a writer who was there.
 +*[[Christopher Gudgeon]] (b. 1964):
 +*:''Mingling Among The Mongols'' (1984),
 +*[[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]] (b.1965):
 +*:''[[In Xanadu]]: A Quest'' (1989)
 +*:''[[City of Djinns]]'' (1992)
 +*:''[[From the Holy Mountain]]'' (1994)
 +*:''[[The Age of Kali]]'' (1995)
 +*:''Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India'' (2009)
 +*[[Tahir Shah]] (b. 1966):
 +*:''Sorcerer's Apprentice''
 +*:''In Search of King Solomon's Mines''
 +*:''Trail of Feathers''
 +*:''The Caliph's House''
 +*:''In Arabian Nights''
 +*:''House of the Tiger King''
 +*:''Beyond the Devil's Teeth''
 +*[[J. Maarten Troost]] (b. 1969):
 +*:''[[The Sex Lives of Cannibals|The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific]]'' (2004),
 +*:''[[Getting Stoned with Savages|Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu]]'' (2006)
 +*[[Gary Arndt]] (b. 1969):
 +*:''[http://Everything-Everywhere.com/ Everything Everywhere] (2007-2008)
 +*[[Cleo Paskal]]
 +*[[Kira Salak]] (b. 1971)
 +*:''[[Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea]]'' (2001)
 +*:''[[Kira Salak|The Cruelest Journey]]: 600 Miles to Timbuktu'' (2004)
 +*[[Tom Bissell]] (b. 1974)
 +*:''Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia'' (2003)
 +
== See also == == See also ==
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Travel literature is travel writing considered to have value as literature. Travel literature typically records the people, events, sights and feelings of an author who is touring a foreign place for the pleasure of travel. An individual work is sometimes called a travelogue or itinerary.

To be called literature the work must have a coherent narrative, or insights and value, beyond a mere logging of dates and events, such as diary or ship's log. Literature that recounts adventure, exploration and conquest is often grouped under travel literature, but it also has its own genre outdoor literature; these genres will often overlap with no definite boundaries. This article focuses on literature that is more akin to tourism.

Fiction

fictional travelogue, imaginary voyage

Fictional travelogues make up a large proportion of travel literature. Although it may be desirable in some contexts to distinguish fictional from non-fictional works, such distinctions have proved notoriously difficult to make in practice, as in the famous instance of the travel writings of Marco Polo or John Mandeville. Many "fictional" works of travel literature are based on factual journeys – Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and presumably, Homer's Odyssey (c. 8th century BCE) – while other works, though based on imaginary and even highly fantastic journeys – Dante's Divine Comedy, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Voltaire's Candide or Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia – nevertheless contain factual elements.

Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) and The Dharma Bums (1958) are fictionalized accounts of his travels across the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Notable travel writers and travel literature

The Royal Road to Romance, The Flying Carpet, New Worlds to Conquer, The Glorious Adventure, Seven League Boots

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