These Ten studies on travel writing begin with two trials will and typological defining the genre. The Axel Gasquet, "Under the Sheltering Sky", goes in search of a coordinates -partida symbolic aspect, separation, transit, return-to conceptualize both travel and travelers of all ages as the ways in which experiences were expressed. Luis Albuquerque focuses on issues closer to the master of literary and textual hybridity to highlight the gender of a border from the aesthetic parameters analysis. The historical overview of the western traveler having these Ten studies demonstrate the complexity of working on a slippery and unstable genre that speaks to something as concrete and at the same time as diverse and multifaceted as the trip (travel) and chronic, but it also contains one of the issues to which Western thought has been given more importance: the reading of the world and ways of thinking about it. Since different times and experiences that are analyzed, the work shows that there is in chronic identification or union with the other, but a compendium of evidence on the differences between the culture of the traveler and found. No meeting but disagreement, not even as theoretical encounter with oneself is seen; so there is anticipation, observation, and especially opinion and judgment. At most there is a dialectic in terms of superiority (the traveler) and inferiority (the found), based on the traditional binomial civilization and barbarism. As has always been on the other side, except on rare occasions, travel literature.