Most people do not need to travel the world. For many, just reading an interesting travelogue is enough. Travel writing has always been a popular and sought-after genre Take a look at its history.
First, it must be stated thattravel writing was never actually intended as a literary genre at all. For example, they are very often diplomatic, wartime, or merchant travel accounts. For example, Marco Polo\’s famous “A Million Times” is a guide for merchants, not a book for the general public.
Travelogues date back to antiquity,
and are often written in the form of a “travelogue” or “travelogue.
Typical examples include Strabo,and, with some exaggeration,Ceasar,which is a “sea serpent.
Besides Marco Polo,another representative figure of medieval travel writing is Abu Abdallah ibn Batut,one of the most important travelers and above all the first cartographer. The first travelogue mentioning the Czech Republic can be found in the work
of the merchantIbrahim ibn Jakob, who described the stone Prague of the reign of Boleslav I.The first travelogue mentioning the Czech Republic can be found in the work
of the merchant
Ibrahim ibn Jakob
, who described the stone Prague of the reign of Boleslav I.
[During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, many wealthy men made trips to the Holy Sepulchre, for example, and many travelogues were written. Many travelogues were also written in the Czech Republic (e.g., Kryštof Harant of Polžice and Bezdružice and his Wanderings).
The great boom in travel occurred in the 19th centuryand was associated withsignificant advances in transportation. It was not only the newly emerging rail services, but also significant technological advances in shipping. In this regard, one cannot avoid mentioning a particularly well-known Czech traveler, Emil Holub,
who, in the 1960s, was the first Czech traveler to travel to the Czech Republic.
The early 20th century was the era of Alois Muzir , who wrote many adventure travel books for young people. Of course, we must mention the famous travelers [61] Hanzelka and Zikmundo. Their work was considered cultish. Even more so since they traveled at a time when most Czechs only traveled to Slapi.
