Study, from a selection of eleven travel documents of the sixteenth century to the twentieth century (Léry. L’Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil (1578). Bougainville. Voyage autour du monde. Lapérouse Voyage autour du monde sur l’Astrolabe et la Boussole (1785-1788). Baudin. Journal du voyage aux Antilles de La Belle Angélique (1796-1798). Darwin. Voyage d’un naturaliste autour du monde : fait à bord du navire le Beagle de 1831 à 1836. Arseniev. Aux confines de l’Amour et Dersou Ouzala. Charcot. Le Français au pôle Sud. Levi-Strauss. Tristes Tropiques. Leiris. L’Afrique fantôme. Malaurie. Hummocks and Les derniers rois de Thulé.. Bonnerave. Field Notes and Nouveaux Indiens ) document travel as text object that combines science and literature, fiction and documentary to produce complex forms of knowledge The paths seem to allow hybrid forms of knowledge to flow from a travel document which attempts to account for experience. The travel document can then be regarded as a document which contains material in power the ability to generate other documents. As a rhizome which any point can be connected with any other, the first document (book ethnologist, or logbook, for example) that contains scientific information comes into connection with other heterogeneous documents (edition of a travel journal for the public, scientific article written from the book or the minutes of dispatch, a novel written from the first document, scientific theory, performance ...) to circulate knowledge.
