Classic travel writing books

Domestic Manners of the Americans is an entertaining, witty, and often scathing account of Trollope's travels in...  Read More >>

Emulating Patrick Leigh Fermor's feat of 1933, Jeremy Cameron walked from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul  Read More >>

As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis...  Read More >>

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor - hailed as the greatest travel writer of his...  Read More >>

A collection of writings from the early half of the twentieth century that remind us of the many connections between...  Read More >>

When On the Origin of Species came out in 1859, it changed the understanding of life and was the foundation of...  Read More >>

Originally published in hardcover in 2013.  Read More >>

A typically brilliant, ironic and moving travelogue by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers  Read More >>

A series of side-splitting adventures from the iconic American writer. Originally published over one hundred years...  Read More >>

Written by Robert Lloyd Praeger, Ireland's greatest field botanist and published in 1937, this enduring celebration...  Read More >>

A collection of writings about the Grand Tour that is original and innovative, straying from the usual path of aristocrats...  Read More >>

This book offers a unique and warm-hearted look into the dilemmas of low-caste family life living on the brink in...  Read More >>

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After years of painting Native Americans and accumulating their artefacts, American artist George Catlin (1796–1872)...  Read More >>

Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724–1804) published a series of works recording...  Read More >>

Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724–1804) published a series of works recording...  Read More >>

Clergyman, schoolmaster and writer on aesthetics, William Gilpin (1724–1804) published a series of works recording...  Read More >>

For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume,...  Read More >>

For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1925, this book contains the edited text of Arthur Young's eighteenth century travelogue...  Read More >>

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Very little is known about Ludolf von Suchem, who made a journey to the Holy Land in 1336–41 and later described...  Read More >>

William Parker Snow (1817–95), mariner and author, volunteered in 1854 to command the schooner Allen Gardiner on...  Read More >>

In July 1824 the king and queen of Hawaii died of measles on a state visit to England. Published in 1826, this composite...  Read More >>