Classic travel writing books

"""Savoring the Camino de Santiago"" is both a memoir and a practical guide for those thinking about journeying...  Read More >>

This book examines the hotel experience of Anglo-American travelers in the 19th century from the viewpoint of literary...  Read More >>

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Winston the pig drops on to Uncle Peter's head and kills him dead. Unwilling to be left alone in her house Aunt...  Read More >>

Aimé Humbert (1819-1900), arrived in Japan in 1863, and though he stayed on for less than a year, his impressions...  Read More >>

"From teaching salsa in an orphanage in Albania, to dancing in a torture museum in Mexico, to flamencoing on a tabletop...  Read More >>

"""When I am fully immersed in my life back home, I'll close my eyes and think of this place, and it will emerge...  Read More >>

This book is the first monograph of the travel writings of Marguerite Blessington (17881849) and offers the first...  Read More >>

In the third part of this series, we join Hearn in Kumamoto after he has taken up at the Daigo Kōtō Gakkō, Kumamoto's...  Read More >>

Cape Cod is the bended arm of Massachusetts: the shoulder is at Buzzard's Bay; the elbow, or crazy-bone, at Cape...  Read More >>

"★★★★★ ""A true adventure in every sense. Superbly written"" ★★★★★ ""Just a stunningly good hardcore travel adventure""...  Read More >>

A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years Shortlisted for the NSW Translation...  Read More >>

A unique travellogue by the man who decoded the hieroglyphs as he travels through Egypt for the first time in 1828-9...  Read More >>

As part of the “beaten track”, Germany did not conform to the Grand Tourist ideals of eighteenth-century British...  Read More >>

Die in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage entstanden uberwiegend im Rahmen einer Ringvorlesung des Zentrums fur Klassikstudien...  Read More >>

Annie Brassey (1839-87), was perhaps the first Western woman to arrive in Japan on her own family yacht, the Sunbeam,...  Read More >>

A raucous, coming of age tale of all the things NOT to do, bridging the gap into adulthood.  Read More >>

The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor  Read More >>

First published in 1913, this volume contains insightful notes and sketches by the author of the people and places...  Read More >>

In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its stupendous living glaciers aroused his unbounded interest,...  Read More >>

In 1839, John Lloyd Stephens' rediscovery of ancient civilizations would captivate the world with the previously...  Read More >>

In 1839, John Lloyd Stephens' rediscovery of ancient civilizations would captivate the world with the previously...  Read More >>

The tourist is introduced to Oxford - the city and its university - by a cat. The book is endorsed by two Professors...  Read More >>

Moonwalking tells the story of the thirteen full moons of 2009, and the young man they helped to rebuild.  Read More >>