It shows how representation matters in travel writings by bringing reference to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters in the light of Edward Said’s Orientalism. As Curl Jung says, “It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.” This article aims at looking into the question of perception and the issue of representation in travel narratives. Stereotyped perception of a traveller misrepresents another culture in their travel writings. Individual perspectives influence the lens of viewing and representing what they see. Travel narratives represent culture and customs of the visited countries, thereby raising questions of perception and representation. They create interest in the reader’s mind to travel to those countries and provide misrepresentation or “fantasized perception” of those countries to the readers. Hence, travel writings sometimes become a medium to explore the beauty and culture of a land. At other times, travel narratives help the reader to have practical information about traveling costs and procedures of the travelled countries. It is not possible for everyone to travel to every place in the world. Travel narratives influence in creating discourses.
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