This study considers how a range of prose texts register, and help to shape, the early modern cultural debate between theoretical and experiential forms of knowledge as centered on the subject of travel.Travel and Humanism in Roger Ascham's The Scholemaster (1570)Wit, Experience, and the Place of Naples in John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wyt (1578) and Euphues and his England (1580) Travel, Experience and the New ScienceTextual Experience in Thomas Coryat's Crudities (1611): Reading, Writing, TravellingTravelling through Texts: The Art of Digression and the Discourse on Method in John Dunton's Voyage Round the World (1691) MELANIE ORD?is Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.