Travel literature

Travel literature is a broad and popular genre of writing covering adventure and exploration, travel writing collections, travel-related memoirs, and travel-centric fiction. Travel writing often blends with essay writing, coming in the form of travel writing collections or as features in magazines. Styles range from journalistic, to the introspective, to funny, and to serious. Early examples appear in medieval China, ancient Greece, and in early Arabic literature.

Historical

 * Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku-no-hosomichi)- Verses and poems by 17th century haiku poet Basho Matsuo on his travel to the northeastern Japan.
 * Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku-no-hosomichi)- Verses and poems by 17th century haiku poet Basho Matsuo on his travel to the northeastern Japan.
 * Narrow Road to the Deep North (Oku-no-hosomichi)- Verses and poems by 17th century haiku poet Basho Matsuo on his travel to the northeastern Japan.

19th century and later
Long distance travel became more accessible to people with the advent of rail, ocean-going steamships and later the automobile and aeroplanes.