"Berättaren på resa" is a study of the forms of the Swedish travel narrative during the long 18th century. The 18th century is usually regarded as the great century of the travel narrative, at least in Swedish literature. Despite this, there is as yet no comprehensive study of the rich material - a gap that my study intends to fill. The point of departure for the study is the different roles travelers take on in their travel narratives - is the traveler portrayed as a daring "adventurer", as a scientist, an aesthete or simply as the reader's "man on the spot"? The starting point in the travel narrative's representation of the self has, among other things, given the study an interdisciplinary character. Depending on the roles taken by the travelers, aspects of the history of ideas and science are considered alongside aspects of literary history, art history and gender history. Of the 68 travel narratives published during the period, 14 are discussed in more detail, but an overview of all titles and a chronological bibliography are also included.