... of degree, what we receive as text say, has been worked on the pace, style content and sequence have all been tailored to suit the need of the audience. The very element of trust between the audience and the narrator is something of a debatable issue how far have these narratives been doctored to suit the target audience - how likely has it that what we are seeing is in fact gospel true but achingly fictitious? One element of literature where narrative is very important would be the genre of travel writing. Travel literature whether inspired by pleasure, pilgrimage, official duty, geographical exploration or profit emerges as a prominent genre in virtually all times and cultures. Travel narratives mediate between fact and fiction, autobiography and ethnography, combining a number of academic disciplines, literary categories and social codes. They also raise issues concerning power and self- perception, cultural representation as well as ...

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