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Originally Posted by Nyssa
Just about any of Mark Twain's most notable works. Any scifi novel whose main theme is time travel. Around the World in Eighty Days, Guliver's Travels, Swiss Family Robinson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes (Not that I'd recommend that one, it wasn't that good) - I take that back. It was okay, not great. The end justified the means, once you got through the "boring" parts. I had actually intended to get the sequel, but forgot until now, so I guess I should thank Jon for asking the question!  |
I disagree with this, strongly. Travel as a genre is non-fiction, a writer's account of his travels to someplace that's else. The best travel writing explores the setting, its history and its people and the writer's response to it. It's neither a made-up story of a trip and it's most definitely not time travel, unless the writer really managed to pull off time travel.
That said, I don't like to get too hung up on definitions. I'm willing to leave it up to the vote.