The image of the animal in travel literature

Abstract

Abstract: Travelers did not forget to convey everything that would reflect the features of culture and civilization in any country they live in, so they monitored the lifestyle of different peoples and their ways of thinking and their care exceeded from human observation to animals, as they conveyed stories about animals that aroused their interest and astonishment as well; The travelers cared about the livestock (animal wealth) , so they mentioned the animals that live in each region, and they also mentioned the ways of feeding them to fatten them, and they talked about their most important products such as meat, milk and ghee. Some book travels have shown an image about what some seas in some regions that travelers have visited produce, their rivers, fish and so on. Hunting wonders and oddities in their stories about animals, as their stories are full of mythical aspects, and the motive behind this may be the transmission of stories that are carried over or that the stages of the journey and its hardships have affected the psyche of travelers and created in them the vast imagination that prompted them to believe what they heard and believed in its existence, and it is nothing but an illusion and imagination; Hence, this research paper seeks to trace the animal symbolism in the nomadic discourse and to investigate its implications. Keywords : journey, traveler, animal, apparent, implicit.