Classic travel writing books

Feldman asks what it means when Jewish-Israeli guides get caught up in their own performances or participate in...  Read More >>

Feldman asks what it means when Jewish-Israeli guides get caught up in their own performances or participate in...  Read More >>

The Women of Cairo: Scenes of Life in the Orient, first published in 1926, describes the trip to Egypt and other...  Read More >>

The Women of Cairo: Scenes of Life in the Orient, first published in 1929, describes the trip to Egypt and other...  Read More >>

Mostly Mischief’s ordinary title belies extraordinary voyages made by H.W. Tilman in both Arctic and Antarctic waters,...  Read More >>

It's 1938, the British have thrown everything they've got at Everest but they've still not reached the summit. War...  Read More >>

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This work examines travellers' accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these...  Read More >>

The author was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which...  Read More >>

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Later viceroy of India, George Curzon (1859–1925) published this highly regarded two-volume work on Persia in 1892,...  Read More >>

In 1935, the author set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. This title describes...  Read More >>

Explores the Grecian countryside with his friend Lawrence Durrell in 1939. In this book, the author describes drinking...  Read More >>

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From ""Roughing it with the Men"" to ""Below the Border in Wartime"" Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Out Trail features...  Read More >>

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The scope of H.W. ‘Bill’ Tilman’s When Men & Mountains Meet is broad, covering his disastrous expedition to the...  Read More >>

First published 50 years before political correctness became an accepted rule, Mischief in Greenland is a treasure...  Read More >>

The travel journal of the wealthy young Englishman, Evelyn Booth, weaves a factual, enthralling, and entertaining...  Read More >>

A fund for destitute children in the remote parts of Kenya gives insights into a country of huge diversity, not...  Read More >>

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Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and sons, 1849.  Read More >>

Lydia Laube is no stranger to near-death experiences, including several while travelling to, from and through Myanmar,...  Read More >>

Mischief among the Penguins is H.W. Tilman's account of his voyage to the Southern Ocean island groups of Crozet and...  Read More >>