Travel book

Tell your experiences, adventures encounters in a travel book and share it with family and friends!

What is a travel book and what does it contain ?

A travel book is a literary (and even plastic) genre that evokes travel in the broad sense : inner journey, exploring an unknown territory or any other initiatory journey around a single theme for a specified period.

The author talks about one of his trips or more, people he met, felt emotions and all things seen and heard. Unlike the novel, travelogue prefers reality to fiction. To earn the title of « narrative » and be considered literature, the narrative should be structured and go beyond the mere listing of dates and places (such as a diary or logbook of a ship).

Early examples of travel literature include Pausanias’ Description of Greece in the 2nd century CE, the Journey Through Wales (1191) and description of Wales (1194) by Gerald of Wales, and the travel journals of Ibn Jubayr (1145–1214) and Ibn Batutta (1304–1377), both of whom recorded their travels across the known world in detail.

The travel genre was a fairly common genre in medieval Arabic literature.

Travel book

History of travel books

Travel literature became popular during the Song Dynasty of medieval China. The genre was called travel record literature.

Travel books' genres

Travel books range in style from the documentary to the evocative, from literary to journalistic, and from the humorous to the serious.

Travel books for tourists

They are often associated with tourism and include guide books, meant to educate the reader about destinations and to provide advice for visits.

Inspire yourself to travel then inspire your readers to do the same !

Travel articles can be found on websites, such as hipptravel.com, in periodicals, and in books. It has been produced by a variety of writers, such as travelers, military officers, missionaries, explorers, scientists, pilgrims, social and physical scientists, educators, and migrants.

Write a travel book

Tell everyone about the secrets of your journey.

Write everything

Begin writing about your trip while you're still there !

Share you experience

Share your travel book with family and friends !

Every detail counts

Take every detail into consideration !

A world travel book is not a travel guide, it's an authentic narrative

What is a travel guide then ?

A guide book or travel guide is a book of information about a place, designed for the use of visitors or tourists. You can check the following websites that has plenty of fun-filled suggestions to keep you busy during your visit :

culture-travel.info
holidaybreaks.org
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autos-anciennes.fr
motos-voitures.com

Is it a travel journal ?

A travel journal, also called road journal, is rather a record made by a traveller, sometimes in diary form, of his experiences, written during the course of the journey and later edited for publication.