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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 travel memoir as a genre.
- ^ Cuddon, J. A. (1999). The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin Books. p. 937. ISBN 9780140513639.