What does travel literature mean? Is it a culture that only travelers can understand?

Tourism literature is a literature that reflects tourism life. It can be some novels written by travelers according to their own feelings. Not only tourists can understand it, but also many readers can feel it. Traveler's notes, including his impressions of the trip and his description and observation of the event. Travel literature aims to convey information about newly discovered land or little-known information. It may be a fictional journey history, which is presented as a real journey in the form of words, but it is very important in ideology and literary content, such as adventure stories, utopia and philosophical works.

Early travels and legends * * * survived and learned from them. Travel records in ancient times, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are of scientific, educational and literary value. Examples include the history of Herodotus, the comprehensive geography of Strappo and Germania in Tacitus, and the narratives of medieval travelers, such as Kyle Poirot's books and Nikitin's trip to Sanyo. In the 3rd century A.D./KLOC-0, G. Cappini and William of Red Rukis wrote descriptions of eastern missionaries and pilgrims, including the journey of Russian father Daniel.

15th to16th centuries were the era of great geographical discovery, and witnessed many travel descriptions, including Las Casas's works, Columbus's log, Amerigo Weiss Pucci's letters and Magellan's travel partner A. Pigafita's diary. Similar works appeared in the ancient and medieval East, including Zhang Qian (2nd century BC), Sulaiman in Basra (9th century) and vasco? D 'Gama's pilot Ibn? Maged (16th century), Venetian geographer Ramusio and Englishman R. Hakluyt began to publish travel notes systematically in 1550 and 1582 respectively.

For a long time, literature and folk epics have borrowed from geographical descriptions and stories, including legendary stories and fictional stories. For example, Homer and Virgil's works, the medieval popular work A Journey to Saint Brendan, knight novels and Arabian Nights. From 15 to 18, works describing real travel are very popular, and their content and structure are more and more used in literary works.