Travel writings have been a very popular source material among historians. Yet most of these texts were written by European and North American travelers and describe a movement from what is commonly called the West to Asia, Oceania, Africa, and Latin America, or, in other terms, from North to South. This seminar is dedicated to the reading of texts written by Latin American political leaders and writers, texts that describe a movement in a different direction and of a different nature: from South to North, or within the South. These documents, created as an integral part of the experience of dislocation and face-to-face encounter with distinct physical and human landscapes, will serve us not only as a window to the culture and history of nineteenth and twentieth century Latin America, but also as a non-Western point of view on global processes of the period.