Of Travel is an essay written by Francis Bacon. The essay was originally published in 1625. Of Travel explores the theme of importance of knowledge in travelling.
Of Travel Summary By Francis Bacon

Summary of “Of Travel” By Francis Bacon
In essay, Bacon has given advice to travelers on how they should travel. Of Travel story begins with writer who say, when young people travel, they acquire education through it, while when elder people travel they get experience through it. So travelling is beneficial for both and elder people.
Young people can learn by travelling in foreign countries as by travelling foreign they can learn new language, about history, customs, geographical and zoological.
When elder people travel, they have an opportunity to deal with new people, situation and expand their life experiences. The writer say If you are travelling to a foreign country, then you should learn or have some basic knowledge of their country language.
If you doesn’t have basic knowledge of language then you would spend most of your time in listening to other people. If you travel in country without having basic knowledge of their language, then you won’t be able to learn as much as by having some knowledge about it.
Bacon advises young people to travel with trustworthy guide. You should travel with person who have visited the place you are visiting and knows their language. If you doesn’t travel with guide, then you won’t able to visit much places in country.
Bacon finds it weird when people travel to ocean and keep diary with them but doesn’t keep diary when they travel on lands. If you are travelling on ocean you would only see water and sky most of the time so you won’t have much to write, but if you are travelling on land then you would see lots things which means you can write about many things in diary. So you should also have diary with you when you are travelling on lands as you observe and records many-many things on lands.
Bacon say, if you are travelling to foreign countries then you should visit their courts of justice, church, monastery, monuments, library, College and Navy etc. These places are important to visit to gain knowledge from foreign countries.
There are more places which you must visit which is public shows, feast, wedding functions and funerals etc. The young man doesn’t have much time to travel and they tries to get as much as knowledge they can get in less time. If you are young and travelling to foreign country then you must know their language, have guide with you and a book to know about things.
The youngsters should have one diary with them and shouldn’t spend much time in one city only. If you are staying in one city, then you should keep changing places in that city to explore more places and interact with new people. If you are travelling abroad, then you should be away from those people who belongs to your own country and instead of it you should interact with foreign country native people.
You should meet those types of people in foreign country who are famous in their fields because by meeting these kinds of people you will learn lots of things. You should see their attitude, communication skills and what we can learn from them by meeting face to face.
Bacon strongly advise to all the travelers, that is to never involve in a fight in abroad country. Try to be away from short tempered people. When traveler returns to its homeland, then they should be in a touch base of those people to whom they met in foreign.
If you comes from visiting abroad country, then it should be reflected in your behavior and communication skills that you are coming from foreign country. It should reflect in your behavior and character not dresses. You shouldn’t copy their fashion instead you should learn from their culture and tries to improve your culture.