Since remote antiquity, for all kinds of reasons, people have left home and hit the road. Couriers and diplomats, merchants and worshippers crisscrossed the Mesopotamian triangle well before 3000 bc. Even tourists, travelling for pleasure, left graffiti on the Pyramids by 1500 bc.1 Very early in history, then, travel and writing converged. Homer’s Odyssey, the epic of obstacle-ridden travel in search of home, raises the journey to the status of a symbolic quest an ‘odyssey’ and the traveller to that of archetypal trickster-hero. Early non fiction travel writing illustrates the difficulty, continuing through the ages, of sorting fact from fiction in the genre. The Greek writer Herodotus gives us a mélange of myth, history, and geography, from Lydian customs (‘the daughters of the common people . . . [download]
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