Handout 1

Question 1

is an ancient desire wherein people share the account of their journeys since they began to wander.

Answer 1

Travel writing

Question 2

People travel for recreational purposes as early as

Answer 2

1500 BCE

Question 3

Travel writing in this era typically provides information garnered during the personal travels of the author.

Answer 3

The Ancient World

Question 4

In this era, common travel accounts are in the form of the ‘peregrinatio’, or pilgrimage narrative, since pilgrimage was one form of culturally sanctioned travel.

Answer 4

Medieval Era

Question 5

The travels during this era were not driven by intellectual curiosity. Because of keen awareness about the opportunities, they traveled for trade, conquest, colonization, and the religious imperative of converting heathen peoples to Christianity.

Answer 5

Early Modern Travel Writing

Question 6

During this period, travel books were read both for intellectual profit and literary pleasure. Technologies and infrastructures have grown, which improves traveling.
Exploration and tourism are the main initiatives in traveling during this period.

Answer 6

The Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1837

Question 7

In this period, travel writing offered a variety of styles and showed a wide range of interests and approaches.
These offered lightweight, superficial ‘sketches’ or ‘recollections’ of picturesque or exotic regions. While other travelers sought to reflect more insightfully on the destinations they had visited.

Answer 7

Victorian and Edwardian Period

Question 8

Many travel accounts produced during this period were not from travelers who are professional authors, scientists, or scholars.
During this period, writers are usually criticized for venturing far from the direction or writing too much about themselves.

Answer 8

Early and Late Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing