Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade 2,0, University of Graz, language English, abstract The field of contemporary travel writing will be analyzed by taking the three authors Paul Theroux, Bill Bryson and V. S. Naipaul into account. The aim is therefore to illustrate what makes contemporary travel writing special and how it differs from what has been written before. The Old Patagonian Express, Neither Here Nor There Travels in Europe and An Area of Darkness have been chosen in order to carry out this analysis.