Classic travel writing books

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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 >>

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
$34.29

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 >>

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 >>

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

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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

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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

A portrait of the customs and cultures of the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula.  Read More >>

Hidden Places

Hidden Places

Author: Sarah Baxter ,  Amy Grimes
ISBN: 9781781319208
Format: Hardback
$32.99

Bringing together comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn illustrations specially commissioned for...  Read More >>

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777-1854

Women's Travel Writings in India 1777-1854

Author: Carl Thompson (Nottingham Trent University, UK) ,  Katrina O'Loughlin (University of Western Australia, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138202726
Format: Mixed media product
$840.00

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

Observations on the River Wye

Observations on the River Wye

Author: William Gilpin ,  Richard Humphreys
ISBN: 9781843681977
Format: Hardback
$35.00

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Medieval Travel and Travelers: A Reader

Medieval Travel and Travelers: A Reader

Author: John Romano
ISBN: 9781487588021
Format: Paperback
$99.99

"Drawing on medieval sources from western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world, this book will fascinate...  Read More >>

Medieval Travel and Travelers: A Reader

Medieval Travel and Travelers: A Reader

Author: John Romano
ISBN: 9781487588038
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Drawing on medieval sources from western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Muslim world, this book will fascinate...  Read More >>

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches...

Author: Matsuo Basho ,  Nobuyuki Yuasa
ISBN: 9780241382615
Format: Hardback
$24.99

Presents travel writings which chronicle the author's perilous journeys through Japan and also capture his vision...  Read More >>

3 Secondi a Bogota: La vera storia di due viaggiatori con zaino e sacco a pelo caduti nelle mani degli inferi Colombiani.

3 Secondi a Bogota: La vera storia di due viaggiatori...

Author: Mark Playne ,  Hillary Tagliafierro
ISBN: 9781916105485
Format: Paperback
$51.72

La storia vera di un viaggiatore inglese che si immerge nei suoi ricordi piu profondi per cercare un qualsiasi indizio...  Read More >>

A Naturalist in the Amazon: The Journals & Writings of Henry Walter Bates

A Naturalist in the Amazon: The Journals & Writings...

Author: Henry Walter Bates
ISBN: 9780565094621
Format: Hardback
$38.79

This book documents Bates' ground-breaking Amazon exploration, with pages from his illustrated notebooks and excerpts...  Read More >>

3 Secondi a Bogota: La vera storia di due viaggiatori con zaino e sacco a pelo caduti nelle mani degli inferi Colombiani.

3 Secondi a Bogota: La vera storia di due viaggiatori...

Author: Mark Playne ,  Hillary Tagliafierro
ISBN: 9781916105461
Format: Hardback
$51.72

La storia vera di un viaggiatore inglese che si immerge nei suoi ricordi piu profondi per cercare un qualsiasi indizio...  Read More >>

O Pagão

O Pagão

Author: Jack London ,  Philipe Pharo
ISBN: 9789895472116
Format: Paperback
$29.04

Nos Mares do Sul do Oceano Pacífico, Jack London narra, em estilo autobiográfico, a história de dois homens unidos...  Read More >>

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