Abstract
This study aims to investigate the many forms of the preface in relation to the conditions of its production and the profile of the preface writer in certain travel accounts in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, or Turkey from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It is interesting to see the diversity of the construction of the self in the prolegomenes, intended to enhance the good reception of the narrative. From the simple traveller in search of exoticism to the passionate missionary, the prefaces of travel relationships offer an array of discursive strategies where the narrator's ethos underpins a rhetoric specific to the travel literature. Lady Montagu, Bugéja, Eberhardt, Montesquieu, Loti and other travellers invite the reader not only to explore a travel experience, but also to grasp the secrets of a rhetorical approach consciously undertaken.
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