Travel enables people to refresh their minds and inspire creative ideas, since they can experience various lifestyles and different kinds of societies. Hence travel becomes an essential issue for people to accumulate life experiences, and enables prospective development of travel literature. Due to the popularity of Internet and PCs, it is no longer limited to reading books or watching TV passively to obtain travel information. On the contrary, we can now achieve information via other rapid and convenient digital solutions, such as real time online notes, blogs …etc. Thus the creation of travel literature now becomes active, living, anytime and anywhere. The nature of travel literature is a kind of mobile literature and personal experience, and has been transferred to the power to create art. This work utilizes the active travel action to generate the inspirations for creation and internal thinking. It also utilizes wide range and variety performance styles to present the enlightening meanings of travel in life and living.

This work《Fish’s Travel Manuscript》creates traveler’s drawing note, picture book and multimedia website bases on the format of travel literature, to present the distinctive travel aesthetics via various reading formats. Hence, in order to study the influences of different media on creation, literature review in the second chapter explores the features and development of travel literature, travel picture books, online travel literature, and the differences in ways of reading and layout regarding hardcopy books and online literature.