Travel writing is a literary genre related to the essay and to the guidebook. It is characterized by a narrator, usually though not exclusively identified with the real-life author, who moves about through some selected piece of geography whilst providing commentary, either about the scenes he sees during his travels or on some other topic suggested by a triggering experience. Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Classicism in Literature The Universal Library, by Carnegie Mellon University Project Gutenberg Online Library Abacci - Project Gutenberg texts matched with Amazon... A genre is any of the traditional divisions of art forms from a single field of activity into various kinds according to criteria particular to that form. ... An essay is a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... The following is a list of travel guides and web sites with substantial international coverage. ... The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...

Travel writing resembles the essay in that the author and the narrator can often be assumed to be the same person; it resembles the guidebook in that the geography presented in much travel writing is confirmable in the real world. These resemblances are not necessarily true for any kind of fiction. An essay is a short work that treats of a topic from an authors personal point of view, often taking into account subjective experiences and personal reflections upon them. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... The following is a list of travel guides and web sites with substantial international coverage. ... The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ...

Some well-known and -regarded travel writers include:

• Julian Barnes
• Ibn Batutta
• Bill Bryson
• Bruce Chatwin
• Juan Goytisolo
• Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
• Doug Lansky
• Frances Mayes
• Peter Mayle
• Quim Monzó
• Henry Vollam Morton
• Jonathan Raban
• Laurence Stern
• Paul Theroux
• Colin Thubron
• Alexis de Tocqueville
• Mark Twain
• Carrió de la Vega
• Evelyn Waugh

Julian Barnes (born January 19, 1946 in Leicester) is a contemporary British writer whose novels and short stories have been seen as examples of postmodernism in literature. ... Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta (February 24, 1304 - 1377) was a Moroccan Berber traveller and explorer. ... Bill Bryson (born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on scientific subjects. ... Bruce Charles Chatwin (May 13, 1940 - January 8, 1989) was a British novelist and travel writer. ... Juan Goytisolo is a Spanish poet and novelist. ... Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934-2002) was an Italian-American journalist, essayist and memoirist. ... Peter Mayle (born 1939) is a British-born author most famous for his series of books detailing life in Provence, France. ... Quim Monzó is a contemporary Catalan writer of short stories and discursive prose. ... Henry Vollam (H. V.) Morton (1892–18 June 1979) was a journalist and travel writer from Birmingham, England. ... Jonathan Raban (born 1942) is a British travel writer and novelist. ... Laurence Sterne Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768) was an English novelist and clergyman. ... Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain to Japan. ... Travel writer and novelist born 1939 His travel books include: Among the Russians, Behind the wall, The Lost Heart of Asia, In Siberia. For his novel A Cruel Madness he won the 1985 Silver Pen Award. ... For other uses, see Tocqueville (disambiguation) Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (b. ... Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ... Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Evelyn Arthur St. ...

See also

• Travel literature