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2. List of travel books - Wikipedia

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   François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz (1623–1668) Les voyages et observations du sieur de La Boullaye Le gouz (1653 & 1657) – one of the first true travel books. Edward Terry (1590–1660) A Voyage to East-India (1655) Pietro Della Valle, (1586–1652), Italian who traveled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period.

3. Travel literature - Wikipedia

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   Literature. The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. [1] One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell 's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786) helped shape ...

4. A Walk Across America - Wikipedia

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   978-0060-9595-55. OCLC. 48168396. A Walk Across America is a nonfiction travel book first published in 1979. It was the first book written by travel author Peter Jenkins, with support from the National Geographic Society. The book depicts his journey from Alfred, New York, to New Orleans, Louisiana. While on his journey of self-discovery, he ...

5. The Innocents Abroad - Wikipedia

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   The Innocents Abroad, or, The New Pilgrim's Progress at Wikisource. The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrim's Progress is a travel book by American author Mark Twain. [2] Published in 1869, it humorously chronicles what Twain called his "Great Pleasure Excursion" on board the chartered steamship Quaker City (formerly USS Quaker City) through ...

6. Notes from a Small Island - Wikipedia

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   Publication date. 1995. Publication place. United Kingdom. ISBN. 0-552-99600-9. OCLC. 60305303. Notes from a Small Island is a humorous travel book on Great Britain by American author Bill Bryson, first published in 1995.

7. The Travels of Marco Polo - Wikipedia

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   915.042. Book of the Marvels of the World (Italian: Il Milione, lit. 'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), [ 1 ] in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Italian explorer Marco Polo. It describes Polo's travels through ...