Classic travel writing books

"This is a vintage treatise on the use of a bicycle ergometer in the measurement and the computation of the amount...  Read More >>

In the summer of 1627, Barbary corsairs raided Iceland, killing dozens of people and abducting close to four hundred...  Read More >>

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This travelogue recounts the great storyteller's sojourns in Genoa, Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples. Dickens...  Read More >>

A major work of narrative non-fiction from a fresh new voice.  Read More >>

H.W. Tilman’s Two Mountains and a River sees him trek across Nepal, China, Pakistan and other areas of Asia, including...  Read More >>

Mischief goes South is H.W. Tilman's account of a voyage dogged by crew trouble. The two unsuccessful voyages regaled...  Read More >>

St Kilda: A People's Historyexplores and portrays the life of the St Kildans from the Stone Age to 1930, when the...  Read More >>

This volume contains the third volume of Anne Grant's Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era’s...  Read More >>

This volume contains the second volume of Anne Grant's Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era’s...  Read More >>

This volume contains the first volume of Anne Grant's Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the Romantic era's...  Read More >>

This volume contains Elizabeth Isabella Spence’s Letters from the North Highlands, one of the Romantic era’s most...  Read More >>

**Sunday Times Bestseller** **Book of the Week on Radio 4** 'A beautiful book about a part of the modern world...  Read More >>

Contains Anne Grant, Letters from the Mountains (1806) and E I Spence, Letters from the North Highlands (1817)....  Read More >>

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

"A wild journey to the East narrated by a writer who is ""without equal in the literature of our time"" (Jorge Luis...  Read More >>

Recently rediscovered and never before published, this buoyant memoir recounts a young man's 1729 voyage from Paris...  Read More >>

The text in this book is taken entirely from the 1842 hand-written travelogue of James Barnes, who, with his wife...  Read More >>

This 1929 volume offers firsthand accounts of Haitian voodoo and witchcraft rituals. Author William Seabrook introduced...  Read More >>

This work was published in 1844 just before the Great Irish Famine. Kohl's journey took him through the four Irish...  Read More >>

JG Kohl's account of Ireland in 1844 gives us a glimpse of the years before the Irish Famine. Part Two takes him...  Read More >>

This is the opening part of 'Travels in Ireland', by J.G Kohl, first published in 1844. It gives a glimpse of life...  Read More >>

A German traveller's perception of pre-famine Ireland and a snapshot of an Ireland that was about to vanish. He...  Read More >>