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The genre of travel writing covers a range of different subgenres. Some forms are meant to be purely informative or educational, such as guide books. Others follow a narrative format, such as travelogues, that describe the writer's personal travels and experiences.

A travelogue can be defined as a record made by a voyager, generally in diary form. A travelogue contains descriptions of the traveler's experiences, and is normally written during the course of the journey, with the intention of updating friends or family on the journey.— Excerpted from Travel writing on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Travel writing

Diagram of Travel writing and its most common sub-genres. Clockwise from top left: Descriptive/Evocative (travel book); Narrative/Evocative (travel literature); Narrative/Instructive (travel journal); Descriptive/Instructive (guide book).; Sub-genres of travel writing

Works

• Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, 1841, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• "How Far from Home," 1848, by Lydia Sigourney
• A Tramp Abroad, 1880, by Mark Twain
• Portraits of Places, 1883, by Henry James
• The Harvard Classics Vol. 51
  • Voyages and Travel I.
  • Voyages and Travel II.
  • Voyages and Travel III.
  • Voyages and Travel IV.
  • Voyages and Travel V.

Africa

South Africa

• The Victoria Falls (1879) by Emil Holub
• Seven Years in South Africa by Emil Holub (1881)
• "In the Lion Country" by Parker Gillmore in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (September 1886)
• "With the British Association in South Africa" (Part I and Part II) by Ernest William Brown in Popular Science Monthly, 68 (January and February 1906)

Central Africa

• "Life at the Cameroons" by Robert Müller in Popular Science Monthly, 35 (October 1889)

Indian Ocean

• "The Cocoa-Nut Palm and its Uses" by Charles Rathbone Low in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (December 1872)
• "Journeying in Madagascar" by Frank Vincent in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (June 1895)

Americas

Caribbean

• A New Survey of the West Indies or The English American His Travel by Sea and Land, 1677, by Thomas Gage
• A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, 1825, by James Hakewill
• "Life on a Coral Island" by William Keith Brooks in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (October 1886)
• "A Spring Visit to Nassau" by Emma Gertrude Cummings in Popular Science Monthly, 52 (April 1898)

Central America (other)

• Guatimala or the United Provinces of Central America in 1827-8, 1828, by Henry Dunn
• Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, 1854 travelogue by John Lloyd Stephens, edited by Frederick Catherwood
• Panama, Past and Present, 1916, by Farnham Bishop

Mexico

• Mexico, as It Was and Is, 1847, by Brantz Mayer
• Our Sister Republic, 1870, by Albert S. Evans

South America

• "Darwin on the Fuegians and Patagonians" by Charles Darwin in Popular Science Monthly, 36 (April 1890)

United States

• Massachusetts: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849, by Henry David Thoreau
• The West: Roughing It, 1872, by Mark Twain
• Alaska: "Arctic Alaska" by William Lauriston Howard in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (July 1888)
• Michigan: "The Border Land of Trampdom" by William Charles Noble in Popular Science Monthly, 50 (December 1896)
• America To-day, Observations and Reflections, 1900, by William Archer

Asia

China

• A Wayfarer in China, 1913, by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

India

• "The Cocoa-Nut Palm and Its Uses" by Charles Rathbone Low in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (December 1872)
• "Regarding Matters in India" by George Francis Lyon in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (March 1873)
• "Eurasia" by Sara Jeannette Duncan in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (November 1892)

Nepal

• Picturesque Nepal, 1912, by Percy Brown

Tibet

• "The Topmost Country of the Earth" by Gustav Kreitner in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (August 1882)
• In the Forbidden Land, 1898, by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Central Asia (other)

• A Journey in Khorassan and Central Asia, 1890, by Robert John Kennedy

South-East Asia (other)

• "Ethnological Sketches in Annam and Tonquin" in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (September 1887)
• "A Scientific Mission to Cambodia" by Édouard Maurel in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (January 1887)

Europe

Ireland

• The Aran Islands, 1907, by John Millington Synge

Britain

• The History of the Roman Wall, 1802, by William Hutton
• Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, 1835, by Washington Irving
• English Hours, 1905, by Henry James

France

• A Little Tour in France, 1884, by Henry James
• In Troubadour-Land, 1891, by Sabine Baring-Gould

Germany

• "Hanoverian Village Life" by Walter Nordhoff in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (February 1880)

Italy

• Pictures from Italy, 1846, by Charles Dickens
• "Summer Days in Ischia" by Louisa Courtenay Peach in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 2 (1860)
• "Old Ficulea" by Francis Carton in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 4 (1860)
• Mornings in Florence, 1875, by John Ruskin
• Italian Hours, 1909, by Henry James

Northern Europe

• "Nature and Life in Lapland" by Joseph Chamberlain in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (February 1877)

Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

• Persia, 1828, by Frederic Shoberl
• Diary of a Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 1841, by Mary G. E. Dawson-Damer
• Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz, 1862, by Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic, transl. by Albert Henry Wratislaw
• Syria, the Land of Lebanon, 1913, by Lewis Gaston Leary

Oceania

Australasia

• The Boy Travellers in Australasia, 1889, by Thomas Wallace Knox

Indonesia

• "A Corner of the Dutch East Indies" by G. Langen in Popular Science Monthly, 35 (September 1889)

Melanesia

• "Life in the South-Sea Islands" by Cyprian Bridge in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (December 1886)
• Picturesque New Guinea, 1887, by John William Lindt
• "Among the Fiji Islands" by Coutts Trotter in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (March 1889)
• "Life in the Solomon Islands" by Charles Morris Woodford in Popular Science Monthly, 35 (August 1889)

Polynesia

• Rambles in New Zealand, 1841, by John Carne Bidwill
• Picturesque New Zealand, 1913, by David Paul Gooding

Global

• Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, 1890, by Nellie Bly