With the publication of Donald Campbell’s A Journey Overland to India Partly by a Route Never Gone Before by Any European (1795), British travels along and travel writings about Middle Eastern routes to India had come a long way. Campbell’s travel book was the first of its kind which described an overland journey to India that included a passage through the Low Countries (Holland, Germany and Austria). Almost all travellers who travelled to India overland avoided this route; they preferred the sea route which included a stop en route to the Italian port of Venice; this route was popular because it was quicker, less expensive and offered travellers opportunities to see the architecture, museums and churches of Italy. But there is another reason which makes Campbell’s book different from all previous accounts about the overland routes to India. Campbell, like Irwin, was little concerned about confirming or falsifying what previous travellers and historians mentioned about the region. Rather he was mostly interested in describing his own personal experiences abroad. And while doing so, he, unlike what we saw in Chapter five, received positive reviews in the British press. The Analytical Review recalled the names of some travellers who previously described a large portion of the land in which Campbell travelled, but ‘[c]circumstances may, however, occur’, the paper added, which ‘render personal adventures of a traveller going this route very interesting, and afford much entertainment’ (1796: 355). With the publication of Campbell’s account, travel books had already become less burdened with the question of truth: Campbell wrote his book with the sole purpose of entertaining and enlightening his children. But the book was immensely political: it expressed personal – sometimes contrarian – opinions about some pressing political and social issues of the day.Once it was published, the book enjoyed a huge popularity; two editions appeared between 1795 and 1796.