Classic travel writing books

1840 books were found.

To a Mountain in Tibet

To a Mountain in Tibet

Author: Colin Thubron
ISBN: 9780099532644
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Twilight in Italy

Twilight in Italy

Author: D H Lawrence
ISBN: 9781420944433
Format: Paperback
$18.09

Published in 1916, Twilight in Italy is a travelogue by D. H. Lawrence. He embarkes on foot to Italy with his German...  Read More >>

A Visit to America

A Visit to America

Author: A.G. Macdonell
ISBN: 9781781550328
Format: Paperback
$33.61

This fascinating book was written as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek travelogue. It is amusing, but also savage, and...  Read More >>

Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country: With an Account of a Mission to Ras Ali in 1848

Travels in Abyssinia and the Galla Country: With an...

Author: Walter Chichele Plowden ,  Trevor Chichele Plowden
ISBN: 9781139051859
Format: Undefined
$224.40

Eight years after his death, the memoirs of Walter Chichele Plowden (1820–60) were published in Britain. As the...  Read More >>

Travellers in Turkish Libya 1551-1911

Travellers in Turkish Libya 1551-1911

Author: John Wright
ISBN: 9781900971133
Format: Paperback
$38.81

From Tripoli to the ancient ruins of Leptis Magna, from the slave markets to the farthest reaches of the Sahara:...  Read More >>

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North

Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers...

Author: Ibn Fadlan ,  Caroline Stone
ISBN: 9780140455076
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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A Tour of the English Lakes: with Thomas Gray and Joseph Farington RA

A Tour of the English Lakes: with Thomas Gray and Joseph...

Author: John R. Murray
ISBN: 9780711232686
Format: Hardback
$118.80

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A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America: Volume 1

A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years'...

Author: W. B. Stevenson
ISBN: 9781139060585
Format: Undefined
$224.40

This three-volume work, published in 1825, describes W. B. Stevenson's colourful experiences in colonial Chile,...  Read More >>

A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America: Volume 3

A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years'...

Author: W. B. Stevenson
ISBN: 9781139060608
Format: Undefined
$224.40

This three-volume work, published in 1825, describes W. B. Stevenson's colourful experiences in colonial Chile,...  Read More >>

A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America: Volume 2

A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years'...

Author: W. B. Stevenson
ISBN: 9781139060592
Format: Undefined
$224.40

This three-volume work, published in 1825, describes W. B. Stevenson's colourful experiences in colonial Chile,...  Read More >>

A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar: Volume 1

A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore,...

Author: Francis Buchanan
ISBN: 9780511873676
Format: Undefined
$224.40

In 1800 the East India Company surgeon Francis Buchanan (1762–1829) was appointed to survey the kingdom of Mysore...  Read More >>

A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar: Volume 3

A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore,...

Author: Francis Buchanan
ISBN: 9780511873690
Format: Undefined
$224.40

In 1800 the East India Company surgeon Francis Buchanan (1762–1829) was appointed to survey the kingdom of Mysore...  Read More >>

A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar: Volume 2

A Journey from Madras through the Countries of Mysore,...

Author: Francis Buchanan
ISBN: 9780511873683
Format: Undefined
$224.40

In 1800 the East India Company surgeon Francis Buchanan (1762–1829) was appointed to survey the kingdom of Mysore...  Read More >>

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome: Volume 2

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome: Volume 2

Author: Richard Francis Burton
ISBN: 9781139004138
Format: Undefined
$224.40

Sent on a diplomatic mission to convince the king of Dahomey (present-day Benin) to put a stop to the slave trade,...  Read More >>

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome: Volume 1

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome: Volume 1

Author: Richard Francis Burton
ISBN: 9781139004121
Format: Undefined
$224.40

Sent on a diplomatic mission to convince the king of Dahomey (present-day Benin) to put a stop to the slave trade,...  Read More >>

The Alps

The Alps

Author: Ronald Clark
ISBN: 9781448206582
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A distinguished historian of mountaineering who knows the Alps from end to end, Ronald Clark describes the history...  Read More >>

The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore, 1698-1701: Volumes I & II

The Three Voyages of Edmond Halley in the Paramore,...

Author: N.J.W. Thrower
ISBN: 9781409433491
Format: Electronic book text
$168.19

Technology revolutionised the ways that music was produced in the twentieth century. As that century drew to a...  Read More >>

A Glimpse of Empire

A Glimpse of Empire

Author: Jessica Douglas-Home
ISBN: 9780859553216
Format: Hardback
$102.96

A GLIMPSE OF EMPIRE is the story of a young Anglo-Irish beauty's visit to Delhi for the 1911 Royal Durbar, where...  Read More >>

Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific: Including the Feejees and Others Inhabited by the Polynesian Negro Races, in Her Majesty's Ship Havannah

Journal of a Cruise among the Islands of the Western...

Author: John Elphinstone Erskine
ISBN: 9781139013130
Format: Electronic book text
$211.20

A naval officer's account of his observations of local life and culture in the Pacific islands, first published...  Read More >>

An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the Years 1797 and 1798: Volume 1: Including Cursory Observations on the Geology and Geography of the Southern Part of that Continent

An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern...

Author: John Barrow
ISBN: 9781139059237
Format: Undefined
$224.40

English writer and explorer Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) spent 1797–8 exploring the recently acquired Cape Colony....  Read More >>

Pioneering on the Congo: Volume 2

Pioneering on the Congo: Volume 2

Author: W. Holman Bentley
ISBN: 9781139057912
Format: Undefined
$224.40

Originally published in 1900, this is the first of two volumes by the missionary W. Holman Bentley (1855–1905),...  Read More >>

An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa, in the years 1797 and 1798: Volume 2: Including Cursory Observations on the Geology and Geography of the Southern Part of that Continent

An Account of Travels into the Interior of Southern...

Author: John Barrow
ISBN: 9781139059244
Format: Undefined
$224.40

English writer and explorer Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) spent 1797–8 exploring the recently acquired Cape Colony....  Read More >>

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