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Robinson Crusoe as a travelogue

 Plot The plot revolves arund the protagonist who doesn't want to stay at home. He wants to travel the world, change his life, change his destiny. It begins with an individual who is not content to his father son he wants to go out and do with his own stuff and woulfd rather travel the world and make his own way in the world. It's interesting because Robinson Crusoe’s first voyage goes with a friend but the friend is so disheartened by the kinds of trouble that they have that he decides that is going no more voyage, he want to stay back home but Crusoe does not then decide this. He says never mind travels the trouble that he wanted to still voyage a long.  So his father of course gives him some good advice to say that stayed here, behere, stay with what we have and be happy. But he decides that he has to travel and he goes first of all he sets out to go to London and then later on, he will then travels all over world as well. Travel to London Now initially he goes with his frie

SHORT SUMMARY OF TRAVEL WRITING

Purpose of travel writing Writing and travel have always been intimately connected. Travel writing celebrates the differences in manner and customs around the world. It helps the reader to understand other people and places. And it helps the readers plan their own trips and avoid costy mistakes while travelling Travel writing during Classic and Medieval times The traveller’s tale is as old as fiction itself: one of the very earliest extant stories, composed in Egypt during the Twelfth Dynasty. A thousand years ago the ‘Odysseia’ (Odysey) from 8B.C. by Homer recounted Greek hero Odysseus’ long journey home after the fall of Troy. And the Latin work ‘Commentariide bello Gallico‘ by Julius Caesar reported his journey during the Gallic War. Greek writer Xenophone wrote ‘Anabasis’ (431-355 BC), about the expedition of a Persian prince against his brother, King Artaxerxes II and the Greek troops travels through Asia back home to Greece. Discovering new worlds After the crusades, new stories