Teori- og referansebok:
? Peter Hulme og Tim Youngs: "Introduction", ? Roy Bridges: "Exploration and Travel Outside Europe (1720-1914)", ? Helen Carr: "Modernism and Travel", ? Susan Bassnett: "Travel Writing and Gender" og ? Mary Baine Campell: "Travel Writing and its Theory" i Peter Hulme og Tim Youngs (red.) : The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing, 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness, 1899.
Greene, Graham : The Lawless Roads, 1939.
Swift, Jonathan: Gulliver’s Travels, 1726.
Wollstonecraft, Mary : Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, 1796. (extract).
Woolf, Virginia: The Voyage Out, 1915.
Tilr?dd tilleggslitteratur vil bli presentert i f?rste m?te. Ei nyttig referansebok er The Literature of Travel and Exploration (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2002). Tendensar i studiet av reiselitteratur er reflekterte i tidsskriftet "Studies in Travel Writing".