Current literary history mainly highlights humanistic travel publications written in the Czech language. Voyages in the foreign languages are staying in the background of the literary field or unfortunately are even neglected in spite of the fact that their cognitive function is not weakened. Submitted thesis is trying to break or disturb this way of observing at least and at the same time attempts to intergrate the German-written work by the Czech traveller into the Czech literary tradition. Jiří Tektander from Jablonné, the author of the voyage, wrote down his experiences and remarks of the diplomatic mission, which had been delegated to Persian Shah Abbas the Great by Rudolph II. in 1602. Tektander became the first Czech man who visited and described Persian Empire and Armenia. He was the only one from Rudolph´s Ministers who survived the long course in three arranged expeditions. At that time our analysed work was very popular and was also published twice. In spite of its popularity, the revolutionary year and the events happened after the beginning of the November 1620 was unfortunately fatal for that work and it was almost neglected. The aim of this thesis is a kind of revival of the Tektander´s vovage and also it is an attempt to include this work in the imaginary refined humanistic literature. This thesis is trying to map the trace of the Emperor´s delegation, explore visited locations, also compare remarked facts with the reality and finally insert to the historical context.

L'effondrement du communisme et la chute du mur de Berlin ont remis au centre des consciences européennes les anciens pays d'Europe de l'Est. Ce travail de recherche géocritique se veut d'étudier le regard porté sur cette partie du continent européen à partir de quelques écrivains-voyageurs qui, comme Rory MacLean avec Stalin's Nose (1992), Jason Goodwin avec On Foot to the Golden Horn (1993), François Maspero avec Balkans-Transit (1997), Wolfgang Büscher avec Berlin-Moskau. Eine Reise zu Fuß (2004), Andrzej Stasiuk avec Sur la route de Babadag (2004), Marco Belpoliti avec La prova (2007) et Paolo Rumiz avec Trans Europa Express (2012) ont traversé d'une manière ou d'une autre cette partie du continent après la chute du mur de Berlin. Autrefois espace strictement associé aux images de guerre froide et au communisme, il apparaît aujourd'hui comme un espace flou, ambigu, voire indéterminé : un espace partagé entre post-communisme et ultra-libéralisme, entre post-moderne et pré-moderne, entre connu et inconnu : des éléments qui font de l’Europe de l'Est un espace exotique de frontières. / The end of communism and the fall of the Berlin wall have drawn attention to the ancient countries of Eastern Europe. This geo-critical research aims at studying and understanding perceptions of this part of European continent from few travelling writers. These ones, as Rory MacLean with Stalin’s Nose (1992), Jason Goodwin with On Foot to the Golden Horn (1993), François Maspero with Balkans-Transit (1997), Wolfgang Büscher with Berlin-Moskau. Eine Reise zu Fuß (2004), Andrzej Stasiuk with Sur la route de Babadag (2004), Marco Belpoliti with La prova (2007) and Paolo Rumiz with Trans Europa Express (2012) did, have crossed this part of Europe, in one way or another, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In a traditional view, this space was used to be associated with the cold war and communism. Today, it seems to be vague, unclear, ambiguous and uncertain; a space shared between post-communism and ultra-liberalism, between early and post-modernism, between the known and the unknown. In other words, Eastern Europe has become an exotic borders’ space.

This Diploma thesis consists of two basic parts. In the first section includes research on specialist geographical literature, nonfiction literature, travel and didactic literature and geography textbooks for the upper primary school. The second section of the thesis comprises of my own teaching manual which focuses on the regional geography of North America, specifically the United States of America. Based on his own traveling experience the author presents the pupils the geographic curriculum of the upper primary school through the medium of a travel story. The teaching manual was created in Microsoft Publisher 2010. The travel book is complemented by extended definitions of terms, tables, colour schemes and a number of personal photographs which were taken during journeys around the USA.

The aim of this essay is to investigate the translation problems translating a travel book about Paris, with cultural and historic connotations, from French, source language, into Swedish, target language. The method that is used is Nords’ text analysis model, which is functionalist and pragmatic. Her theory of action is based on Vermeers’ skopos theorie and on Reiss’ text typology. Nords’ looping model includes analysis, transfer and synthesis. She focuses on three important aspects which are the translation brief, the role of the source-text analysis and the importance of the functional hierarchy of translation problems. Nord proposes two different translation strategies: Documentary translation and Instrumental translation. The first one is source text oriented and the second one is target text oriented. Our study focuses on pragmatic and cultural equivalence concerning the different aspects as style, lexis (vocabulary) and syntax in the source language and the translation into the target language. The purpose of the translation is target text oriented which means that different strategies, as adaptations and explanations, are used in the target text. The conclusions that are drawn from this study are that historical and cultural connotations, that are present in the source text, require a deep knowledge on the French culture and language, this being a necessary competence for the translator to produce a comprehensible translation for the target text audience.

Cette thèse s’intéresse au genre du récit de voyage et à la mise en place, au fil des siècles, d’une poétique viatique propre aux terres mexicaines. Deux historiques illustrés par des récits de voyageurs occidentaux introduisent le thème. Le premier se focalise sur l’évolution du genre du Moyen-âge au XXe siècle. Le deuxième retrace les grandes lignes de l’histoire mexicaine du XVIe siècle à nos jours. Ces assises permettent de situer les récits de Francisco Solano, Paco Nadal et Suso Mourelo, trois auteurs espagnols contemporains, qui ont voyagé au Mexique entre 1994 et 2008, dans la tradition viatique. Leur analyse rend compte de changements de paradigmes dans la pratique du voyage et dans sa textualisation, mais aussi de la continuité d’un modèle (le récit de voyage classique) et d’un imaginaire (celui de l’Occident sur le Mexique) véhiculés depuis des siècles. À l’instar du genre hybride étudié, ce travail adopte une démarche transdisciplinaire. Il questionne la représentation du Mexique et montre comment ce pays acquiert dans les discours des voyageurs une dimension mythique. Il termine par dévoiler, à la lumière des théories décoloniales, les idéologies qui traversent les discours des trois auteurs et voyageurs espagnols. / This thesis explores the style of travel literature and the development over the centuries of a poetic of travel, unique to the Mexican territory. Two backgrounds depicted by occidental travelers’ writings introduce the topic. The first one focuses on the travel’s writing evolution from Middle Age until the XX century. The second one gives us an outline of Mexico’s history from the XVI century till today. These foundation help determine the narratives of Francisco Solano, Paco Nadal and Suso Mourelo, three contemporary Spanish authors who authentically traveled to Mexico between 1994 and 2008. Their analysis reflects paradigm shifts of the travel concept and his writing forms, but also the continuity of a model (the classic travel book) and an imagination (Occidental view of Mexico) transmitted for centuries. Like the studied style, this work takes a transdisciplinary approach. It questions Mexico’s representation and shows how this country acquired in the speeches of travelers a mythical dimension. Finally, in the light of the decolonial theories, it reveals the ideologies that the three Spanish authors and travelers convey.

It might seem obvious to state that Paisajes peruanos, one of José de la Riva-Agüero’s threegreat books, should be a travel book, as it is , in effect, the wording of a trip really made. Not whithstandingly, not every trip finishes in the form of a textual genre know as a “travel book”. Using the three dicothomies proposed by Luis Alburquerque for identifying a travel book (“factual” as opposed to “fictional”, “descriptive” as opposed to “narrative”, and “objective” as opposed to “subjective”), this paper proves the generic filiation of Paisajes peruanos. What this paper does not prove is why Riva-Agüero used specifically this particular genre tocristalize his idea of “integral Peruanity”. / Parece obvio que Paisajes peruanos, uno de los tres textos más importantes de José dela Riva-Agüero, sea un “libro de viajes”, al ser, en efecto, el registro de un viaje realmente acontecido. Sin embargo, no todos los viajes se expresan en el género textual denomina- do “libro de viajes”. Mediante su determinación como “factual” frente a “ficcional”, como “descriptivo” frente a “narrativo” y como “objetivo” frente a “subjetivo” –los tres grandes binomios establecidos por Luis Alburquerque para el género– se prueba la filiación genérica de Paisajes peruanos. No se responde totalmente, sin embargo, a la pregunta de por quéescoge Riva-Agüero un “libro de viajes” para cristalizar su idea de la peruanidad integral.

The diploma thesis is called ?A travel book as a practical tool for teaching regional Geography in secondary school (for example teaching of South-western Asia).? It consists of two parts. The first part is focused on the analysis of literature and the materials that refer to the topic of my diploma thesis (textbooks of Geography, travelogue and popularly educational literature). The next theme of this thesis is a travel book as a term, and possibilities of the usage of literature connected with travelling as a tool of teaching practice in secondary school. The main part of the thesis applies to the process of teaching text as a teaching guide that uses elements of a travel book for teaching regional geography of states in South-western Asia in secondary school. The teaching text is divided into two parts ? travel and teaching that introduces basic geographic signs of the whole region of South-western Asia. Each chapter is finished with summary, questions and tasks. The readers are progressively taken to Iran as a chosen representative of the region in each part of travel story.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to do a typology of the czech books of travel to the Orient written during the second half of the 19th century or the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Typology will be created on the basis of comparative analysis of morphology and thematic parts of the relevant texts. The basis for comparacy are the texts Vítězslav Hálek, Jan Neruda, František Klement, Alois Musil and Josef Kořenský. The work also insight to the development of travel literature, readers will also zoomed history of travel to the Oriental area.