Travel and sketch diaries tell us something about the experience gained through searching for the other and for oneself.

Caught between travel guides and artists' books, the travel diary has swung between a journalistic documentary style and visual expression. 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.

This book provides an outline of the story of Danish travellers in Greece, illuminating aspects of both the cultural history of Greece and the period of the Danish golden age in the first half of the nineteenth century. In treating this hitherto underexamined subject, Dream and Reality makes a contribution to the general study of European culture in the nineteenth century.