Typee ( 1846 ; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life ) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku Hiva ( which Melville spelled as Nukuheva ) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands, in 1842.

* 1037 – Birth of the Chinese poet Su Shi, one of the renowned poets of the Song Dynasty, who also penned works of travel literature.

He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature.

* Methodus Apodemica — an early example of travel literature

As a result of the report Forster was admitted to the Royal Society at the early age of twenty-two and came to be considered one of the founders of modern scientific travel literature.

This was different from conventional travel literature of the time, insofar as it present more than a mere collection of data-it also demonstrated coherent, colourful and reliable ethnographical facts that resulted from detailed and sympathetic observation.

The genre of Chinese travel literature also became popular with the writings of the geographer Fan Chengda ( 1126 – 1193 ) and Su Shi, the latter of whom wrote the ' daytrip essay ' known as Record of Stone Bell Mountain that used persuasive writing to argue for a philosophical point.

Gautier's travel literature is considered by many as being some of the best from the nineteenth century, often written in a more personal style, it provides a window into Gautier's own tastes in art and culture.

The later accounts of Prester John borrowed heavily from literary texts concerning the East, including the great body of ancient and medieval geographical and travel literature.

As is the case with much of Northern Holland many of the residents can communicate in English but most travel literature and restaurant menus are in the Dutch and German languages only.

The Song Dynasty saw the rise in popularity of " travel record literature " ( youji wenxue ).

Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society ( 1767 ) drew on classical authors and contemporary travel literature, to analyze modern commercial society with a critique of its abandonment of civic and communal virtues.

In literature, the objects of quests require great exertion on the part of the hero, and the overcoming of many obstacles, typically including much travel.

The classical rabbinical literature argues that Judah reacted violently to the threat against Benjamin, shouting so loudly that Hushim, who was then in Canaan, was able to hear Judah ask him to travel to Egypt, to help Judah destroy it ; some sources have Judah angrily picking up an extremely heavy stone ( 400 shekels in weight ), throwing it into the air, then grinding it to dust with his feet once it had landed.

Both in the academic literature and in practice, the implementation of congestion pricing for urban road travel has raised several concerns, and has been subject of debate and controversy.

Besides developing his Boston legal practice ( with Charles Sumner as a partner ), he served in the Massachusetts legislature, edited several Boston journals, and wrote on literature, politics and travel.

* Medieval travel literature

It is a form of travel literature.

Besides his renowned poetry, his other extant writings are of great value in the understanding of 11th century Chinese travel literature as well as details of the 11th century Chinese iron industry.

* Victor Aimé Huber ( 1800-1869 ), German social reformer, travel writer and a literature historian

In 18th century travel literature, Schwingen figures as part of the stereotypes of Swiss alpine culture.

Browne's erudite learning is reflected in the fact that the Classics of antiquity as well as history, geography, philology, philosophy, anatomy, theology, cartography, embryology, medicine, cosmography, ornithology, mineralogy, zoology, travel, law, mathematics, geometry, literature, both Continental and English, the latest advances in scientific thinking in astronomy, chemistry as well as esoteric topics such as astrology, alchemy, physiognomy and the Kabbalah are all represented in the Catalogue of his library contents.

Central to the Clarion movement were the Clarion Cycling Clubs who, often accompanied by the " Clarion Van ", would travel the country distributing socialist literature and holding mass meetings.

In general, Montagu consistently derides the quality of European travel literature of the 18th century as nothing more than " trite observations ... superficial ... boys who only remember the best wine or the prettyest women.

The collection is notable for its many editions of Homer, Aesop and Ariosto, for early travel books, and for literature in the Romance languages.

He spent a great part of his life in travel, visiting England, the Netherlands and France, and residing for a considerable period at Naples.

During this time period, Marker began to travel around the world as a journalist and photographer, a vocation he would continue the rest of his life.

This is becoming more important as students travel abroad for education for a period of several years.

Cosmologists refer to the time period when neutral atoms first formed as the recombination epoch, and the event shortly after of photons starting to travel freely through space rather than constantly scattering with electrons and protons in plasma is referred to as photon decoupling.

Many cruisers are " long term " and travel for many years, the most adventurous among them circle the globe over a period of three to ten years.

In the 1930s, Meher Baba began a period of extensive world travel, with several trips to Europe and the United States.

* For travel to the French islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon directly from Canada, Canadians and foreign nationals holding Canadian identification documents are exempted from passport and visa requirements for stays of maximum duration of 3 months within a period of 6 months.

Following the free travel agreement and politic of the post – Cold War period, as well as hardship of the life in the post 1990s economic depression, Romania has an increasingly large diaspora.

This included numerous halts over a 40 year period of travel in AM 2448 ( 1313 BCE ) in the Jewish tradition.

Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the need for the traveler to experience the intervening period ( at least not at the normal rate ).

Small-scale fading refers to the rapid changes in radio signal amplitude in a short period of time or travel distance.

* Allotment ( travel industry ), a block of pre-negotiated carrier seats or hotel rooms held by a travel organizer till a certain period

Minor additions to the canal were made after the Sui period to cut down on travel time, but overall no fundamental differences existed between the Sui Grand Canal and the Tang Grand Canal.

Each courier station was assigned a different name, all of which were popularized in travel songs of the period.

A more acceptable policy on automobile travel restrictions, proposed by transport economists to avoid inequality and revenue allocation issues, is to implement a rationing of peak period travel but through revenue-neutral credit-based congestion pricing.

Because he did a midwifery medical course in Plymouth, he was not able to be a member of the cast of ISIRTA during the third season, due to the enormous distance between London and Plymouth which prevented Graeme from being able to travel to London to record ISIRTA during that period.

Since the outer-most spans ( or towers ) travel farther in a given time period than the innermost spans, nozzle sizes are smallest at the inner spans and increase with distance from the pivot point.

Fox News ran a story in 2007 reporting that during a period of above average numbers of births, at least 40 Canadian mothers of premature babies had to travel to the U. S. for treatment due to insufficient capacity for premature babies in British Columbia neonatal units.

By 1869, Leonowens was in New York, where she opened a school for girls for a brief period on Staten Island, and began contributing travel articles to a Boston journal, Atlantic Monthly, including " The Favorite of the Harem ", reviewed by the New York Times as " an Eastern love story, having apparently a strong basis of truth ".

With Japan divided into individual territories ( Han ) with the restrictions on travel already in place under Toyotomi Hideyoshi and strengthened afterwards by the successive Tokugawa governments of the Edo period ( 1600-1868 approximately ) provided a fertile ground for the development of formalized methods of tying prisoners who had to be transported across territories because of measures then in place mandating that a prisoner had to be handed off from one set of officials to another at the border of each territory with each law-enforcement group employing a different school ’ s or region ’ s often jealously-guarded methodology.

During the colonial period, the town served as a stop along the King's Highway, and with its location at the confluence of Interstate 95, Interstate 495, Governor Printz Boulevard and Philadelphia Pike, has long been a thoroughfare for travel between Philadelphia ( 20 miles to the north ) and Washington, D. C. ( 100 miles to the south ).

During the 2007 county bridge closure period, the Toll Bridge provided the only route for vehicles to travel to and from the island.

During that period, it was the major center for merchants and outfitters as trappers, traders, and emigrants prepared to travel westward on the Santa Fe Trail, California Trail, Oregon Trail, and the Mormon Trail to Utah.