Classic travel writing books

The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated in Coryats...  Read More >>

This title was first published in 2001: Hundreds of European travelogues produced by British travellers between...  Read More >>

A man-eating tiger has stalked and killed 460 villagers across northern India, spreading fear and heartbreak when...  Read More >>

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Shortlisted for the New Welsh Reader University of South Wales Travel Writing Award. A wonderfully engaging work...  Read More >>

Long distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. Papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter...  Read More >>

Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major...  Read More >>

A compelling travel book based on fieldnotes and diaries and a landmark study of Greek island life in the mid 1960s...  Read More >>

This book examines how non-fictional travel accounts were rewritten, reshaped, and reoriented in translation between...  Read More >>

In addition to Cartier's Voyages, a slightly amended version of H.P. Biggar's 1924 text, the volume includes a series...  Read More >>

Bird's visit to Japan is placed in the context of her worldwide life of travel and introduces the woman herself....  Read More >>

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A riveting journey and deeply knowledgeable portrait of the Sahel - must-have for the travel readership  Read More >>

It is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the influential eighteenth-century travel-writer, antiquarian...  Read More >>

The heartwarming, hilarious story of the culture clashes and faux pas that add up to one happy French family Say...  Read More >>

The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the...  Read More >>

The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a...  Read More >>

In short order, Alfred Raquez sets off on a rollicking voyage into the heart of the lawless Miao-country, pen and...  Read More >>

In short order, Alfred Raquez sets off on a rollicking voyage into the heart of the lawless Miao-country, pen and...  Read More >>

Moonlit seances in Honolulu. Exotic cobra dances. Drinking games with Oscar Wilde. Enchanting tales in Victorian...  Read More >>

A beautiful and inspiring memoir about finding love and a home in a war zone Moving her family to a war zone...  Read More >>

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The diaries and letters presented in this volume reveal the multifaceted nature of Adam and Elizabeth Shortt, from...  Read More >>

During 1949 and 1950 H.W. Tilman mounted pioneering expeditions to Nepal's Himalaya. He explored the Ganesh Himal,...  Read More >>

H.W. Tilman's book Ice with Everything describes three voyages that attempt to reach East Greenland's Scoresby Sound,...  Read More >>