{"id":5260,"count":76,"description":"Travel books are a popular genre in the 21st century, combining personal observations and emotions with detailed descriptions and journeys through interesting places. In English, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a pioneer, writing about her trip to Scandinavia, in her <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/letters-written-sweden-norway-and-denmark-mary-wollstonecraft\/\"><em>Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark<\/em><\/a>.\r\n\r\nMuch earlier, Ibn Battuta (born in Tangier in 1304) had written about his travels.\u00a0Islam has a rich tradition of travelling to gain knowledge, and it's no surprise we have not one but two interviews on travelling in the Muslim world.\r\n\r\nWe also have reading recommendations from contemporary travel writers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/travel-paul-theroux\/\">Paul Theroux,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/colin-thubron-on-travel-writing\/\">Colin Thubron<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/sara-wheeler-on-the-polar-regions\/\">Sara Wheeler.<\/a> Books that influenced <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/bruce-chatwin\/\">Bruce Chatwin,<\/a> author of <em>In Patagonia<\/em> and <em>The Songlines, <\/em>are recommended by his biographer.\r\n\r\n(For books about specific countries\u2014not necessarily travel writing\u2014please look at <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/\">our 'world' section where books are organized by country<\/a>).","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/nonfiction-books\/travel-books\/","name":"Travel","slug":"travel-books","taxonomy":"category","parent":45785,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/45785"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5260"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5260"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}