Classic travel writing books

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A Voyage Round My Room

A Voyage Round My Room

Author: Xavier de Maistre
ISBN: 9781916173088
Format: Paperback
$23.73

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Palace and Mosque at Ukhaiḍir - A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaiḍir - A Study in Early...

Author: Gertrude Bell
ISBN: 9781528715713
Format: Paperback
$38.79

Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir - A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture is a 1914 work by Gertrude Bell that explores...  Read More >>

Syria - The Desert and The Sown

Syria - The Desert and The Sown

Author: Gertrude Bell
ISBN: 9781528715690
Format: Paperback
$38.79

First published in 1919, Syria - The Desert and The Sown is an extensively-illustrated chronicle of Gertrude Bell's...  Read More >>

Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel

Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel

Author: Gertrude Bell
ISBN: 9781528715706
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Safar Nameh - Persian Pictures - A Book Of Travel is a 1894 account of Gertrude Bell's trip to Persia to visit...  Read More >>

Italian Sketches

Italian Sketches

Author: Garrett Rittenberg
ISBN: 9781734420234
Format: Hardback
$63.45

Garrett Rittenberg set out for Italy to satisfy a long held desire to experience and become intimately acquainted...  Read More >>

My First Summer in the Sierra

My First Summer in the Sierra

Author: John Muir ,  Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513263670
Format: Paperback
$23.73

The famous conservationist's lyrical, exuberant observations of the awe-inspiring beauty of the Sierra Nevada. Introduction...  Read More >>

The Revolution as a Dinner Party: Across China with Edgar Snow, Mao Tse-tung, Joseph Stilwell, Chiang Kai-shek, and Sun Yat-sen

The Revolution as a Dinner Party: Across China with...

Author: Matthew Mills Stevenson
ISBN: 9780997058024
Format: Paperback
$39.60

From the author of Letters of Transit, Reading the Rails, and Appalachia Spring comes this delightful account of...  Read More >>

Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner

Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist...

Author: Paul van der Velde ,  Liesbeth Pankaja Bennink
ISBN: 9789813250826
Format: Paperback
$49.03

With the help of generous excerpts from Jacob Gotfried Haafner's own writings, including material newly translated...  Read More >>

Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks

Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781847020932
Format: Paperback
$28.20

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history,...  Read More >>

Bon Voyage Travel Notebook: A Journal For Those Who Love To Travel The World

Bon Voyage Travel Notebook: A Journal For Those Who...

Author: Sharon Purtill
ISBN: 9781989733288
Format: Paperback
$16.79

Bon Voyage Travel Notebook: A Journal For Those Who Love To Travel The World Whether you are ready to backpack across...  Read More >>

Language and the Grand Tour: Linguistic Experiences of Travelling in Early Modern Europe

Language and the Grand Tour: Linguistic Experiences...

Author: Arturo Tosi (Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9781108487276
Format: Hardback
$258.75

Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction...  Read More >>

What I Saw in America

What I Saw in America

Author: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9781774415498
Format: Hardback
$68.61

This collection of essays from G.K. Chesterton includes the following works: What is America? A Meditation in a...  Read More >>

Papa's Sketches: The Travels of Robert Macalister, Gentleman, in Paisley, Glasgow, and Largs

Papa's Sketches: The Travels of Robert Macalister, Gentleman,...

Author: Marion Palmann
ISBN: 9781789631050
Format: Paperback
$23.26

In the autumn of 1851, a fifty-year-old father of six set off from his home in Dublin on a sentimental journey to...  Read More >>

The Harbours of England

The Harbours of England

Author: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9781774415078
Format: Hardback
$28.44

Turner's Harbors of England, is a book which has never received from readers of Mr. Ruskin's writings the attention...  Read More >>

The Discovery of Albania: Travel Writing and Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century Balkans

The Discovery of Albania: Travel Writing and Anthropology...

Author: Johann George von Hahn ,  Robert Elsie
ISBN: 9781350154681
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Classic accounts of Albania in the 19th century.  Read More >>

Canoeing in the Wilderness

Canoeing in the Wilderness

Author: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9781838575687
Format: Paperback
$18.09

From the author of Walden comes this 1857 diary of a sojourn amid the still-unspoiled woodlands of Maine. Thoreau...  Read More >>

The Voyage of the Beagle

The Voyage of the Beagle

Author: Charles Darwin
ISBN: 9781528717069
Format: Paperback
$49.14

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Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume III: Mrs A. Deane, A Tour through the Upper Provinces of Hindustan (1823); and Julia Charlotte Maitland, Letters from Madras During the Years 1836-39, by a Lady (1843)

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume III:...

Author: Éadaoin Agnew
ISBN: 9781138202788
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India between 1760 and 1840. This...  Read More >>

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume II: Harriet Newell, Memoirs of Mrs Harriet Newell, Wife of the Reverend Samuel Newell, American Missionary to India (1815); and Eliza Fay, Letters from India (1817)

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume II:...

Author: Katrina O'Loughlin ,  Michael Gamer
ISBN: 9781138202771
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India during 1760 and 1840. This...  Read More >>

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume IV: Mary Martha Sherwood, The Life of Mrs Sherwood (1854)

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume IV:...

Author: Betty Hagglund
ISBN: 9781138202863
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India between 1760 and 1840. This...  Read More >>

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume I: Jemima Kindersley, Letters from the Island of Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope and the East Indies (1777); and Maria Graham, Journal of a Residence in India (1812)

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777–1854: Volume I:...

Author: Carl Thompson
ISBN: 9781138202764
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This new collection assembles seven accounts of women who visited and resided in India during 1760 and 1840. This...  Read More >>

A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

Author: Freya Stark
ISBN: 9780755633821
Format: Paperback
$38.99

Freya Stark is most famous for her travels in Arabia at a time when very few men, let alone women, had fully explored...  Read More >>

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