Classic travel writing books

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Olmsted's Texas Journey: A Nineteenth-Century Survey of the Western Frontier

Olmsted's Texas Journey: A Nineteenth-Century Survey...

Author: Frederick Law Olmsted
ISBN: 9781632206244
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Originally published: New York: Dix, Edwards, 1857.  Read More >>

Scott on Waterloo

Scott on Waterloo

Author: Sir Walter Scott ,  Paul O'Keeffe
ISBN: 9781784870232
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield

The Urewera Notebook by Katherine Mansfield

Author: Anna Plumridge
ISBN: 9781474400152
Format: Hardback
$98.32

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The Origins of the Grand Tour: The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville (1649-1654), William Hammond (1655-1658), and Banaster Maynard (1660-1663)

The Origins of the Grand Tour: The Travels of Robert...

Author: Professor Michael G Brennan
ISBN: 9781472460721
Format: Electronic book text
$168.19

Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast...  Read More >>

The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, (1647-1656), Levant Merchant

The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, (1647-1656), Levant...

Author: Michael Brennan
ISBN: 9781472460578
Format: Electronic book text
$168.19

This is the first fully annotated old-spelling edition of the entire text of the autograph English journal of Robert...  Read More >>

An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World: The Travels of Muhammad ibn ‘Uthmān al-Miknāsī, 1779-1788

An Arab Ambassador in the Mediterranean World: The Travels...

Author: Nabil Matar (University of Minnesota, USA)
ISBN: 9781138791527
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book provides translated selections from the writings of Muhammad Ibn Othman al-Miknasi (d. 1799). The only...  Read More >>

Venice: Faber Modern Classics

Venice: Faber Modern Classics

Author: Jan Morris
ISBN: 9780571322794
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Often hailed as one of the best travel books ever written, Venice is neither a guide nor a history book, but a beautifully...  Read More >>

A Frenchman in England 1784: Being the Melanges sur l'Angleterre of Francois de la Rochefoucauld

A Frenchman in England 1784: Being the Melanges sur...

Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld ,  Jean Marchand
ISBN: 9781107492929
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Originally published in 1933, this book presents an English translation of the French aristocrat François de La...  Read More >>

Isabella Bird

Isabella Bird

Author: D Ireland
ISBN: 9781781450970
Format: Hardback
$64.69

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Journal Written during an Excursion in Asia Minor 1838

Journal Written during an Excursion in Asia Minor 1838...

Author: Charles Fellows
ISBN: 9781108080682
Format: Paperback
$85.36

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Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936

Franco's Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936...

Author: Jeremy Treglown
ISBN: 9781784701154
Format: Paperback
$22.99

In the four decades since Franco’s death foreign narratives – For Whom the Bell Tolls, Casablanca, Homage to Catalonia...  Read More >>

Jewish Travellers

Jewish Travellers

Author: Elkan Nathan Adler
ISBN: 9781138878983
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Based on the volume of twenty-four Hebrew texts of Jewish travellers by J.D. Eisenstein, this volume begins with...  Read More >>

Once Upon a Distant Journey

Once Upon a Distant Journey

Author: Hendrik Gout
ISBN: 9781743053348
Format: Hardback
$39.95

These yarns take you on journeys across Australia from the outback to the sea. We feel for ourselves the relationship...  Read More >>

The Dodecanese: Further Travels Among the Insular Greeks: Selected Writings of J. Theodore & Mabel V.A. Bent, 1885-1888

The Dodecanese: Further Travels Among the Insular Greeks:...

Author: Gerald Brisch ,  J. Theodore Bent
ISBN: 9781784910969
Format: Paperback
$38.81

A sequel to The Cyclades, a compilation of late-19th-century travel writings (with an archaeological/ethnographical...  Read More >>

Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)

Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)

Author: Frances Trollope ,  Sara Danger
ISBN: 9781554811113
Format: Paperback
$62.70

Frances Trollope’s famously caustic memoir of life in early nineteenth-century America is now available with all...  Read More >>

The Travels

The Travels

Author: Marco Polo ,  Nigel Cliff
ISBN: 9780141198774
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part II

Women's Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle...

Author: Betty Hagglund ,  Stephen Bending
ISBN: 9781848930223
Format: Mixed media product
$767.00

Part II of this edition reproduces The Tour of Africa, first published in 1821 by Catherine Hutton. Although framed...  Read More >>

Sailing Alone Around the World

Sailing Alone Around the World

Author: Joshua Slocum
ISBN: 9781909612600
Format: Paperback
$18.99

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The Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Wallace
ISBN: 9781909612556
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago is a work of astounding breadth and originality that chronicles the...  Read More >>

Le grand voyage d'Alain Gerbault

Le grand voyage d'Alain Gerbault

Author: G. C. Harper
ISBN: 9781107487277
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Originally published in 1932, this book contains an edited edition in French of the autobiographical account by...  Read More >>

South!

South!

Author: Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
ISBN: 9781909612617
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first...  Read More >>

In Morocco

In Morocco

Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9781909612594
Format: Paperback
$18.99

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781909612624
Format: Paperback
$18.99

In October 1878 the lovesick Robert Louis Stevenson made a journey across the mountains of the Cevennes in Southern...  Read More >>

The Diary of Henry Teonge: Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak 1675-1679

The Diary of Henry Teonge: Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships...

Author: G. E Manwaring
ISBN: 9781138867697
Format: Paperback
$92.99

An intensely human document, enlivened with sketches of the people he met and places he visited, Teonge's Diary...  Read More >>

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