Classic travel writing books

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

This book is a narrative of the journey British writer Laurence Oliphant (1829–88) made to Russia as a young man....  Read More >>

The talented British linguist, ethnologist and explorer Richard F. Burton (1821–90) was one of the first Europeans...  Read More >>

The talented British linguist, ethnologist and explorer Richard F. Burton (1821–90) was one of the first Europeans...  Read More >>

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Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890), a shrewd trader and later in life one of the best known archaeologists of the 19th...  Read More >>

Two gripping travel narratives from a turbulent historical period: the father a witness to the outbreak of the French...  Read More >>

Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715 1747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic""  Read More >>

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Paris has long been a storied center of art and culture, and of romance, but in the 1920s its magnetism was especially...  Read More >>

'A RIP-ROARING RIDE WITH INTELLIGENCE & DEPTH' Beyond Sanity & Insanity by Ray Dawn combines a cracking adventure...  Read More >>

A guide to Europe's rail network on the very brink of the First World War. Published in 1913, it is divided into...  Read More >>

First published in 1823, this work recounts the 1822 penultimate journey to the Arctic regions of scientist and...  Read More >>

First published in 1896 and based on extracts from diaries, notes and reports, this work, edited by J. A. Macdonald,...  Read More >>

William George Clark (1821–78), the co-editor of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863–6), was a classical as well as...  Read More >>

First published in 1899, this entertaining account of two expeditions into the Arctic regions is a glimpse into...  Read More >>

In his Book of Marvels and Travels, Sir John Mandeville describes a journey from Europe to Jerusalem and on into...  Read More >>

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"Best known as editor of ""The Principal Navigations"" (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting...  Read More >>

Targeted at both travellers and 'readers at home', Richard Ford's 1845 account of Spanish history, topography and...  Read More >>

Including illustrations, maps and an account of what it was like to be set upon by bush-rangers in the early nineteenth...  Read More >>

An account of Captain Burnaby's remarkable 1875 journey through Russian territory during the 'Great Game', when...  Read More >>

From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat...  Read More >>

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