Because of the limited production of “travel writings” in India, academic attention to its literary perspectives has been remarkably lacking. For a scholar of literary studies, this is unfortunate because travel narratives compellingly reflect the sociocultural conditions and cross-cultural practices across the world, resulting in an ethnographically sensitive and stylistically complex aesthetics. The essay will, thus, first situate Puri and Castillo’s call for “theorizing fieldwork in the humanities” (2016) as an important reason behind encapsulating the lived experiences of local people as residents and the writer as a literary ethnographer in travel narratives in the postcolonial nations. Then, drawing from recent scholarships on “literary travel” that strategically adapts the fieldwork narrative and literary narrative through the regional travel aesthetics in postcolonial studies, the paper will show how the noted Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh, working across a range of geographic contexts, in his The Hungry Tide (2004) and Jungle Nama: A Story of the Sundarban (2021) historicizes the tragic fate of the people of Sundarbans and their embodied experiences in the face of postcolonial modernity marked with capitalist-carbon economy and increasing ecological catastrophes through his extensive travel to Sundarbans as part of his literary endeavor. Closely engaging with the textual practice of intertwining local dialect and indigenous belief systems in the Western literary forms, specifically the interplay of socioecological issues with his experimental use of the myth of Bon Bibi, without compromising their cultural and performative aspects, the paper argues that Ghosh’s travel aesthetics is literary-ethnographically aware and extensively conscious of the constructed and negotiated differences between the lived experiences of fieldworks and abstract knowledge of travelistic encounters.