Classic travel writing books

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The First Englishmen in India: Letters and Narratives of Sundry Elizabethans written by themselves

The First Englishmen in India: Letters and Narratives...
Author: J. Courtenay Locke ISBN: 9781138867673 Format: Paperback	$92.99
First published in 1930. This volume contains letters and narratives of some of the Elizabethans who went to India.... Read More >>

Sirens and Seriemas

Sirens and Seriemas
Author: Paul Brooke ISBN: 9781908241368 Format: Paperback	$31.05
Paul Brooke, a former biologist and naturalist, explores the Amazon and Pantanal region of Brazil through photography... Read More >>

From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel Writings

From the Elephant's Back: Collected Essays & Travel...
Author: Lawrence Durrell , James Gifford ISBN: 9781772120516 Format: Paperback	$87.95
Thirty-eight rare, out-of-print or previously unpublished essays and letters by Lawrence Durrell with scholarly... Read More >>

The Quest for Classical Greece: Early Modern Travel to the Greek World

The Quest for Classical Greece: Early Modern Travel...
Author: Lucy Pollard ISBN: 9781780769615 Format: Hardback	$240.00
Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were... Read More >>

The Politics and Art of John L. Stoddard: Reframing Authority, Otherness, and Authenticity

The Politics and Art of John L. Stoddard: Reframing...
Author: Michaelene Cox ISBN: 9780739188705 Format: Hardback	$210.00
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Reflections in a Sailor's Eyes: A Lifetime Exploring Earth

Reflections in a Sailor's Eyes: A Lifetime Exploring...
Author: Jack Binder ISBN: 9780980872064 Format: Paperback	$44.27
Memoirs by the author of Two's a Crew and Where Wild Winds Blow. Reflections in a Sailor's Eyes continues our... Read More >>

Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary Ashley Townsend

Here and There in Mexico: The Travel Writings of Mary...
Author: Mary Lee Townsend , Ralph Lee Woodward Jr ISBN: 9780817358266 Format: Paperback	$92.27
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Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa, in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824

Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and...
Author: Dixon Denham , Hugh Clapperton ISBN: 9781139034500 Format: Undefined	$224.40
This important book, first published in 1826, brings together the memoirs of three explorers, Major Dixon Denham... Read More >>

An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries

An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the...
Author: Michael Haag ISBN: 9789774166723 Format: Hardback	$31.02
In the pages of An Alexandrian Anthology, we follow the delight of travelers discovering the strangeness of the... Read More >>

From London Overland to India and What We Learned There

From London Overland to India and What We Learned There...
Author: Lloyd I Rudolph (, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University of Chicago) , Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, University of Chicago) ISBN: 9780199450558 Format: Paperback	$39.95
Destination India records the events encountered during the travel undertaken by eminent political scientists Lloyd... Read More >>

Lady Nugent's East India Journal: A Critical Edition

Lady Nugent's East India Journal: A Critical Edition...
Author: Lady Maria Nugent (, Wife of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent) , Ashley L. Cohen (, Assistant Professor, English, Georgetown University) ISBN: 9780198089728 Format: Hardback	$136.95
The wife of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757-1849), Lady Nugent could travel extensively and meticulously observed... Read More >>

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings

Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings...
Author: Nellie Bly , Jean Lutes ISBN: 9780143107408 Format: Paperback	$34.99
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The Malay Archipelago

The Malay Archipelago
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace , Dr Andrew Berry ISBN: 9780141394404 Format: Paperback	$32.99
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Western Women Travelling East 1716-1916

Western Women Travelling East 1716-1916
Author: Penelope Tuson (Historian and Archivist, Historian and Archivist) ISBN: 9780198702474 Format: Hardback	$324.00
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Cabool: Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to, and Residence in that City, in the Years 1836, 7, and 8

Cabool: Being a Personal Narrative of a Journey to,...
Author: Alexander Burnes ISBN: 9781108075374 Format: Paperback	$87.95
The soldier, political agent and covert operative Alexander Burnes (1805–41) was stationed in Kabul at a time when... Read More >>

A Book of Voyages

A Book of Voyages
Author: Patrick O’Brian ISBN: 9780007487127 Format: Paperback	$19.99
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The Hunter is Death

The Hunter is Death
Author: T.V. Bulpin ISBN: 9781485300236 Format: Paperback	$46.45
This book is without a doubt the most remarkable true account ever written of adventure in Africa. It is the story... Read More >>

Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia: Volume 1

Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts...
Author: John Bell ISBN: 9781107294394 Format: Undefined	$224.40
John Bell (1691–1780) entered the service of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia, and had already taken part in a government... Read More >>

A Comedian Sees the World: Charlie Chaplin

A Comedian Sees the World: Charlie Chaplin
Author: Lisa S. Haven ISBN: 9780826220400 Format: Hardback	$92.27
Film star Charlie Chaplin spent February 1931 to June 1932 touring Europe, during which time he wrote a travel memoir... Read More >>

Three Years in Europe: Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met

Three Years in Europe: Or, Places I Have Seen and People...
Author: William Wells Brown , William Farmer ISBN: 9781108075626 Format: Paperback	$80.19
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Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh: With Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis

Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site...
Author: Claudius James Rich ISBN: 9781108077484 Format: Paperback	$93.12
The East India Company's resident at Baghdad, Claudius James Rich (1786/7–1821) travelled from 1820 in Kurdistan... Read More >>

Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site of Ancient Nineveh: With Journal of a Voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an Account of a Visit to Shirauz and Persepolis

Narrative of a Residence in Koordistan, and on the Site...
Author: Claudius James Rich ISBN: 9781108077491 Format: Paperback	$93.12
The East India Company's resident at Baghdad, Claudius James Rich (1786/7–1821) travelled from 1820 in Kurdistan... Read More >>

A Whisper On The Mediterranean

A Whisper On The Mediterranean
Author: Tonia Parronchi ISBN: 9781907984648 Format: Paperback	$34.29
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From Cairo to Baghdad: British Travellers in Arabia

From Cairo to Baghdad: British Travellers in Arabia...
Author: James Canton ISBN: 9781780769875 Format: Paperback	$52.99
Acclaimed story of British travel writing in the Middle East with a stellar cast of writers, adventurers and explorers... Read More >>

Journey to the North of India: Overland from England, through Russia, Persia, and Affghaunistaun

Journey to the North of India: Overland from England,...
Author: Arthur Conolly ISBN: 9781108069236 Format: Paperback	$98.30
Published in 1834, as Britain and Russia sought supremacy in Central Asia, this two-volume work sheds light on the... Read More >>

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