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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.
Works[edit]
- 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
Africa[edit]
South Africa[edit]
- The Victoria Falls (1879) by Emil Holub
- Seven Years in South Africa by Emil Holub (1881)
- "In the Lion Country" by 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[edit]
Indian Ocean[edit]
- "The Cocoa-Nut Palm and its Uses" by in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (December 1872)
- "Journeying in Madagascar" by in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (June 1895)
Americas[edit]
Caribbean[edit]
- 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 in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (October 1886)
- "A Spring Visit to Nassau" by in Popular Science Monthly, 52 (April 1898)
Central America (other)[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Mexico, as It Was and Is, 1847, by Brantz Mayer
- Our Sister Republic, 1870, by Albert S. Evans
South America[edit]
United States[edit]
- 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 in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (July 1888)
- Michigan: "The Border Land of Trampdom" by in Popular Science Monthly, 50 (December 1896)
- America To-day, Observations and Reflections, 1900, by William Archer
Asia[edit]
China[edit]
- A Wayfarer in China, 1913, by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
India[edit]
- "The Cocoa-Nut Palm and Its Uses" by in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (December 1872)
- "Regarding Matters in India" by in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (March 1873)
- "Eurasia" by in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (November 1892)
Nepal[edit]
- Picturesque Nepal, 1912, by Percy Brown
Saudi Arabia[edit]
- The Northern Ḥeǧâz, 1926, by Alois Musil
Tibet[edit]
- "The Topmost Country of the Earth" by in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (August 1882)
- In the Forbidden Land, 1898, by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Central Asia (other)[edit]
South-East Asia (other)[edit]
- "Ethnological Sketches in Annam and Tonquin" in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (September 1887)
- "A Scientific Mission to Cambodia" by in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (January 1887)
Europe[edit]
Ireland[edit]
- The Aran Islands, 1907, by John Millington Synge
Britain[edit]
- The History of the Roman Wall, 1802, by William Hutton
- Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, 1835, by Washington Irving
- English Hours, 1905, by Henry James
- Letters from England, 1925, by Karel Čapek
France[edit]
- A Little Tour in France, 1884, by Henry James
- In Troubadour-Land, 1891, by Sabine Baring-Gould
Germany[edit]
Italy[edit]
- Pictures from Italy, 1846, by Charles Dickens
- "Summer Days in Ischia" by in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 2 (1860)
- "Old Ficulea" by in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 4 (1860)
- Mornings in Florence, 1875, by John Ruskin
- Italian Hours, 1909, by Henry James
Northern Europe[edit]
Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East[edit]
- 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[edit]
Australasia[edit]
Indonesia[edit]
Melanesia[edit]
- "Life in the South-Sea Islands" by in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (December 1886)
- Picturesque New Guinea, 1887, by John William Lindt
- "Among the Fiji Islands" by in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (March 1889)
- "Life in the Solomon Islands" by in Popular Science Monthly, 35 (August 1889)
Polynesia[edit]
- Rambles in New Zealand, 1841, by John Carne Bidwill
- Picturesque New Zealand, 1913, by David Paul Gooding