“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
The aspiration for journeys is the quintessential feature of human beings. A travelogue is born when the memories take the shape of words and visuals. Travel writing is considered as a unique literary genre that records the experiences of travelers in the form of vivid descriptions, illustrations and historical background.
Merriam Webster’s Encyclopedia of Literature defines Travel literature as a “non fiction prose form that depends largely on the wit, powers of observation, and character of the traveller for its success. In past centuries, the traveller tended to be an adventurer or a connoisseur of art, landscape, or strange customs who may also have been a writer of merit.”
Since the thrust area of National Conference on “Textual and Visual Evidences of Exploration in Travel Literature” 2k20 is ‘Travel Narratives’, its primary aim is to explore and discover the textual and visual evidences in travel writings recorded across the globe.