回答{TSE}题： 第一篇 Seeing the World CenturiesAeo If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authorsas Arthur Former or Eugene Fodor,it will not surprise you to lean that travelwriting has a long and venerable history. Almost from the earliest annals ofrecorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeysto strange and exotic locales. One of the earliest travel writers,a Greek geographer andhistorian named Strabo,lived around the time of Christ. Though Strabo is knownto have traveled from east of the Black Sea west to Italy and as far south as Ethiopia,he also used details gleaned from other writers to extend and enliven his accounts.His multivolumed work Geography provides the only surviving account of thecities,peoples,customs,and geographical peculiarities of the whole known worldof his time. Two other classic travel writers,the Italian Marco Polo and theMoroccan Ibn Battutah,lived in roughly the same time period. Marco Polotraveled to China with his father and uncle in about A. D.1275 and remainedthere 16 or 17 years,visiting several other countries during his travels. WhenMarco returned to Italy he dictated his memoirs,including stories he had heardfrom others,to a scribe,with the resulting book II million being an instantsuccess. Though difficult to attest to the accuracy of all he says,Marco's bookimpelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration. Ibn Battutah's interest in travel began on his required Muslimjourney to Mecca in 1325,and during his lifetime he journeyed through all thecountries where Islam held sway. His travel book the Rihlah is a personalizedaccount of desert journeys, court intrigues, and even the effect of the Back Deathin the various lands he visited . In almost 30 years of traveling it isestimated that Ibn Battutah covered more than 75,000 miles. {TS}This passage is mostly about A. why people find travel writing exciting