A Talk on Travelogue

Since the early nineteenth-century travelogue is quite a popular term and becomes a hybrid genre. It sounds like an illustration of nonfiction that describes someone’s experiences while travelling usually accompanied by a given in the form of narrative, public lecture, photography, slideshow, documentary or motion picture.

Burton Holmes Travelogues, 1917

First known use of the hybrid term travelogue was found in 1903, coined by American traveller, photographer and filmmaker Elias Burton Holmes. Supposedly the term derived from a blend of travel + logue (derived from Greek –logue), abstracted from the monologue. Sometimes written as travelog (American) as an alternative form.

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