Travel literature
The genre of travel literature encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs.[1]
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One early travel memoirist in Western literature was Pausanias, a Greek geographer of the 2nd century CE. In the early modern period, James Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1786) helped shape travel memoir as a genre.