Classic travel writing books

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

Both an addition to the Stendhalian canon and a pioneering work of the travel-writing genre, Travels in the South...  Read More >>

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“The appendices alone provide material for an entire course, linking [the text] to literary, philosophical, sentimental,...  Read More >>

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Alec Waugh first saw the West Indies on a trip round the world in 1926 when his ship called in at Guadeloupe. Fifteen...  Read More >>

Indefatigable traveller Isabella Bird visited Korea at a time of increasing foreign influence, and published her...  Read More >>

Clergyman and ornithologist H. B. Tristram's 1873 work recounts his discoveries, in archaeology and natural science,...  Read More >>

Indefatigable traveller Isabella Bird visited Korea at a time of increasing foreign influence, and published her...  Read More >>

Robert Walpole (1781–1856) compiled a volume of unpublished writings on Greece and Turkey in 1817; its second edition,...  Read More >>

The botanist Robert Fortune (1813–80) first went to China as a plant collector for the Royal Horticultural Society,...  Read More >>

In this 1821 work, Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855) describes...  Read More >>

Twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843–1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843–1920) were pioneering biblical scholars and explorers....  Read More >>

Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855) published this two-volume...  Read More >>

The archaeologist D.G. Hogarth (1862–1927) became acting director of the Cairo Arab Bureau during the First World...  Read More >>

Written by Agnes Bensly, wife of Orientalist and biblical scholar Robert Bensly (1831–93), and first published in...  Read More >>

This two-volume English translation of part of a longer narrative by the Ottoman Evliya Çelebi (1611–c.1680) was...  Read More >>

In 1868 the wealthy Smith sisters, Agnes and Margaret, set out with a companion across Europe to fulfil their dream...  Read More >>

An 1829 English edition of the work of the Arab traveller Ibn Battuta (1304–68/9), whose journeys may have reached...  Read More >>

The nineteenth-century travel writer and British naval officer Adolphus Slade published this thoughtful and detailed...  Read More >>

Twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843–1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843–1920) were pioneering biblical scholars and explorers...  Read More >>

Clarke Abel was Medical Officer and naturalist on Lord Amherst's embassy to China in 1816–17. His detailed observations...  Read More >>

Ornithologist and clergyman H. B. Tristram's 1865 account of a journey through Palestine, is written with the aim...  Read More >>