Caught between travel guides and artists' books, the travel diary has
swung between a journalistic documentary style and visual expression. It
is a literary and artistic genre that is composite and plural,
heterogeneous and subjective. This book illustrates the great scientific
and journalistic adventures in history, from the Egyptian campaign to
the war in Iraq, while describing the artistic techniques and
contemporary trends in travel sketchbooks. It also explores more
intimate territories, capturing the essence of our world to preserving
the remembrances. Between text and image, this stunning collection
travels through the centuries revealing the most beautiful pages of a
very human adventure. The book ends with a complete overview of the
different genres (from the educational trip to reportage) and types of
travel diaries (from sketchbooks to audiovisual works), as well as the
very diverse techniques used by different artists (from pencil work to
the graphic arts and mixed techniques). As memories of other places,
travel notebooks chronicle the experience of getting to know the place
we visit and ourselves. They have been companions of artists from Dürer
to Philip Delord, going through the orientalists and explorers.