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The dialogue is a conversation between Lahontan and a Huron, whom he describes as "a noted man among the savages". [9] The two discuss the fundamental differences between themselves, Lahontan as a French man, and Adario as a Huron. First Meeting: They begin by debating whose is the greater god.
'The Million', possibly derived from Polo's nickname "Emilione"), [1] in English commonly called The Travels of Marco Polo, is a 13th-century travelogue written down by Rustichello da Pisa from stories told by Venetian explorer Marco Polo. It describes Polo's travels through Asia between 1271 and 1295, and his experiences at the court of Kublai ...
The genre of travel literature or ... In the late 20th century there was a surge in popularity of travel writing, particularly in the English-speaking world ...
George Shelvocke (c. 1675 – 1742) English privateer who carried out a Circumnavigation of the world. A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea (1723), [1] a book that inspired The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge. Richard Pococke English bishop in Ireland, the traveller in Europe and the Middle East
Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.
The pair travel to the holiday island of Phuket, where Jack has arranged to stay at a straw beach hut. Jack takes Michael on a sea kayak, but Michael throws his oar away so that Jack has to do all the paddling. While Jack gets a massage at the beach, Michael is dissatisfied with the restrooms by the beach, so he rents a room.
The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an Englishman named Sir John Mandeville across the Islamic world as far as India and China.
"The Travelling Companion" (Danish: Reisekamaraten) is an 1835 short fantasy story for children by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. The tale tells the story of young traveller, poor John, and how with the help of a magical travelling companion he marries a princess.