"Travel literature is travel writing
considered to have value as literature. Travel literature typically
records the people, events, sights and feelings of an author who is
touring a foreign place for the pleasure of travel...
...To be called literature the work must have a coherent narrative, or
insights and value, beyond a mere logging of dates and events...
Literature that recounts adventure, exploration and conquest is often
grouped under travel literature, but it also has its own genre outdoor
literature; these genres will often overlap with no definite
boundaries."
(source:
Wikipedia)
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