travelogue

plural travelogues · alternative US travelog

1. A description of someone's travels, given in the form of narrative, public lecture, slide show or motion picture.

   Dr. John Bowker, inventor and coiner of new words […] has what he calls an ‘illustrated travelogue’ on Hawaii.

   1898 December 3, “Plays Next Week ‘Phroso,’ ‘Yankee Doosle Dandy,’ ‘On the Wabash,’ ‘A Mislit Marriage’”, in Boston Daily Advertiser, Boston, Mass., →OCLC, page 4, column 6

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   During this period, and especially in Russia, the travelogue becomes a hybrid genre comprising elements of poetry, prose, and the drama.

   2012, R.K. Wilson, The Literary Travelogue: A Comparative Study with Special Relevance to Russian Literature from Fonvizin to Pushkin, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN

   The Road to Oxiana is a travelogue by Robert Byron, first published in 1937. It is considered by many modern travel writers to be the first example of great travel writing.

   2016, Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana: New edition linked and annotated, MarcoPolo, →ISBN