Who Were The First European Travel Writers?

Travel writing is a major genre. Go into any bookshop and see the vast array of travel writings aimed to appeal to every type and taste. There are food travel books for food enthusiasts, historical travelogues for the historians, humorous travel books for the irreverent, and every other imaginable slant on travel. But where did this interest in the travels of others begin? One of the earliest European travel accounts, where the writer traveled for the sake of travel and wrote about it

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