A journalistic approach to the informative component in the book "A trip through Honduras" by Mary Lester

Abstract

Travel books present a heterogeneous content due to the multiplicity of discursive elements manifested in the narrative, descriptive and informative construction that their documentary and literary nature implies. In this sense, this article seeks to determine the informative component of the text A Journey through Honduras, by the British writer Mary Lester, who traveled through this country in 1881 and conveys her experience as a chronological story, contributing over the course of the book a series of data and informative descriptions about the places visited and the way of life of its inhabitants in the 19th century. The study is based on an analysis of the nature of the information detailed throughout the writing, in order to establish its correspondence with the political, historical, social and cultural reality of the time.