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Unit six.

Vocabulary in context.

Literature.

Travel writing.

The American travel writer Bill Bryson once observed that going abroad was like being five years old again. You can't read anything, you only have a basic idea of how things work, and your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.

Bryson's books are funny and full of interesting observations about geography, architecture and places. However, they are not mere guidebooks.

His travelogues combine evocative accounts of cultures and customs with an entertaining personal narrative.

Bryson is not the first author to achieve fame like this. The first was probably Marco Polo, whose chronicle of a trip to China became a bestseller in thirteenth century Europe.

In the eighteenth century, Lawrence Sterne popularized travel literature in England, and Jonathan Swift satirized travel writers in his parody Gulliver's Travels.

Although international travel is much more common now than in Marco Polo's day, Bryson reminds us of the childlike wonder that travel can still offer today and how good it is to read about.