The phrase "a traveller back" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey the idea of someone who travels back in time or to a previous location, but it lacks clarity and proper structure.
Example: "As a time machine operator, I often encounter a traveller back from the past."
Alternatives: "a time traveler" or "a return traveler".
A traveller back from California told us about a party he went to in the movie colony.
A traveller back from Paris tells us that the Paris taxidrivers are about the same and that they seem to be keeping their idiom up to date.
The New Yorker, August 8 , 1942P. 7 A traveller back from California told us about a party he went to in the movie colony.
The New Yorker, August 25 , 1934P. 14 A traveller back from Germany tells about the most interesting thing he saw over there.
By H. M. Smyser, James Thurber, and Harold Ross The New Yorker, August 25 , 1934P. 14 A traveller back from Germany tells about the most interesting thing he saw over there.
The New Yorker, January 29 , 1949P. 15 A traveller back from Paris tells us that the Paris taxidrivers are about the same and that they seem to be keeping their idiom up to date.
"If you sent a time traveller back to the Cambrian period armed with a camera and an x-ray machine, the images they'd come back with would be nothing compared to these fossils, which preserve detail finer than a human hair.
I would be very surprised if he was ever an actual member of the Communist Party, but I'd be even more surprised if he wasn't a fellow traveller back in the Party's '30s-to-'40s heyday, which in my opinion would have been pretty deplorable, too.
By E. B. White The New Yorker, February 26 , 1944 P. 16Incidental Intelligence: A traveller just back from the West reports that he saw a stucco wigwam in Idaho.
The New Yorker, February 26 , 1944P. 16 Incidental Intelligence: A traveller just back from the West reports that he saw a stucco wigwam in Idaho.
He didn't mention that the D.H.S.'s stated determination to keep applicants out of city shelters whenever possible would have sent this hypothetical traveller back to her airplane forthwith, perhaps with a one-time subsidy for jet fuel.
