The Travelogue Genre Travel Writing Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author touring a place for the pleasure of travel An individual work is sometimes called a ID: 564019
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Non-Fiction Piece #5
“The Travelogue”Slide2
Genre: “Travel Writing”
Travel literature typically records the experiences of an author
touring
a
place for the
pleasure
of
travel.
An individual work is sometimes called a
travelogue
.
Literary travelogues generally exhibit a coherent
narrative
or
aesthetic
beyond
the logging of dates and events as found in
travel journals.
Travel
literature is closely associated with
outdoor literature
and the genres often overlap with no definite boundaries. Slide3
“A Walk in the Woods” By Bill Bryson
Bryson is an award-winning
best-selling American author of
humorous
books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science.
After living in Britain for much of his life, he returned to the U.S. in 1995.
During his
time, Bryson
decided to walk the
Appalachian Trail
,
about which he wrote the book
A Walk in the Woods
.Slide4
“A Walk in the Woods” pg 412
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
is
a book written
in a humorous style, interspersed with more
serious
discussions of matters relating to the trail's history, and the surrounding sociology, ecology, trees, plants, animals and people.Slide5
The Appalachian
TrailSlide6Slide7