Example sentences for: travelogue

How can you use “travelogue” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Island of the Colorblind , which explores both disease--achromatopsia (color-blindness) and lytico-bodig (a disorder similar to Parkinson's)--and Micronesia, is being dismissed as half botanical treatise, half travelogue.

  • A Galápagos travelogue/essay says that Darwin's curiosity and enthusiasm enabled him to make sense of the peculiar islands' ecology.

  • The Island of the Colorblind is an odd book, part case study, part travelogue, part weave of digressions, but this oddness is a measure of the personality that unifies it.

  • Kate Winslet's first post- Titanic film, the tale of a British woman's journey to Marrakech in the 1970s in search of adventure and Sufi wisdom, gets high marks on aesthetics and so-so marks on plot: It's "better at creating a picturesque travelogue than at building a compelling narrative and full-bodied characters" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). The New York Times ' Janet Maslin goes gaga for the whole package, saying Winslet's performance as the naive young woman who drags her two daughters to the ends of the earth "perfectly captures [her] as a well-meaning mother who has no notion that she need be anything but self absorbed."

  • Critics say that Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the best-selling travelogue set in Savannah fails to capture the book's quirky charm.


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