Classic travel writing books

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'German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour,' wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling views about Germany...  Read More >>

"No longer New York's ""forgotten borough"". Since Hurricane Sandy, Staten Island has been in the headlines, and...  Read More >>

A detailed journal/daily log of a 1634 expedition of three individuals into Fort Orange (now Albany, New York, US)...  Read More >>

This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American...  Read More >>

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.  Read More >>

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. This...  Read More >>

First published in 1864, this two-volume work is an account by the American explorer Charles Francis Hall (1821–71)...  Read More >>

In A Hero of Our Time, the first great Russian novel, a young officer, passionate and world-weary, is posted to...  Read More >>

Remembered today for his archaeological discoveries in Crete, Evans became Britain's leading Balkans expert overnight...  Read More >>

In 1845, Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin set out on an expedition to traverse the North-West Passage, from which...  Read More >>

First published in 1830, this two-volume work documents the expedition to Timbuktu of Réné Caillié (1799–1838),...  Read More >>

First published in 1830, this two-volume work documents the expedition to Timbuktu of Réné Caillié (1799–1838),...  Read More >>

Lisbon and the Pyrenees form the basis of this lively collection of firsthand accounts of travel within Portugal...  Read More >>

Richard Bright (1789–1858), later physician-extraordinary to Queen Victoria, describes his observations while travelling...  Read More >>

In his classic book on London, H. V. Morton turns his traveller's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail on...  Read More >>

In the young Disraeli's life: the tour through the Mediterranean and Near East which he undertook with the man who...  Read More >>

When the British government undertook the construction of the Uganda Railway through East Africa in 1898, their...  Read More >>

In 'The Indian Equator', the Mark Twain travel trilogist Ian Strathcarron, his wife and photographer Gillian and...  Read More >>

Norwegian explorer Carl Lumholtz (1851–1922) wrote the influential ethnographic studies Among Cannibals and Unknown...  Read More >>

Norwegian explorer Carl Lumholtz (1851–1922) wrote the influential ethnographic studies Among Cannibals and Unknown...  Read More >>

Adventurous and unconventional, Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) left England to travel to the east in the early...  Read More >>

Adventurous and unconventional, Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) left England to travel to the east in the early...  Read More >>