That is, the particular and the universal. A travel book will make the reader aware of a lot of things - ships, planes, trains, donkeys, sore feet, hotels, bizarre customs and odd people, unfamiliar weather, curious architecture, risky food. At the same time, a travel book will reach in the opposite direction and deal with these data so as to suggest that they are not wholly inert and discrete but are elements of a much larger meaning, a meaning metaphysical, political, psychological, artistic or religious - but always somehow, ethical . . . . . Your reviews should be between 5 and 15 pages long. You may pick a book from any era or travel genre.
Guidebooks are lists of information and facts of history and geography.
They do tell you how the author was affected by the encounter with the landscape and people. Search the travel section of the Macalester Library or the travel sections of one of the Grand Avenue book stores for interesting titles.