Classic travel writing books

Reginald Heber (1783–1826) was appointed as the second Anglican Bishop of Calcutta in 1823. He travelled widely...  Read More >>

Anna, Lady Brassey (1839–1887) was an English travel writer best known for her accounts of ocean journeys undertaken...  Read More >>

Published in 1855, this two-volume account by the captain of H.M.S. Assistance describes his unsuccessful mission...  Read More >>

In this account, first published in 1896, the clergyman, linguist and traveller Charles Henry Robinson recalls his...  Read More >>

A scientific writer, translator and traveller, John Reinhold Forster (1729–98) took part in Cook's second Pacific...  Read More >>

William Bosman (b. 1672) spent fourteen years from 1688 on the Gold Coast in the service of the Dutch West India...  Read More >>

The tenth edition of this accessible, scholarly guide to the city of the Renaissance. An essential handbook for...  Read More >>

The canoeing trip through Belgium and northern France that Stevenson describes in An Inland Voyage was taken in...  Read More >>

Ambrose Rathborne was an Australian mining engineer, who moved first to Ceylon (present day Sri Lanka) as a coffee...  Read More >>

Endlessly comic and entertaining, The Innocents Abroad remains...  Read More >>

Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman whose extensive travels and writings earned her the first female membership of the...  Read More >>

Anna, Lady Brassey (1839–1887) was an English travel writer best known for her accounts of ocean journeys undertaken...  Read More >>

The British administrator William Sleeman toured the kingdom of Oude in 1849–1850 and produced a report on its political,...  Read More >>

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was a respected scientist whose meticulous approach to scientific observation...  Read More >>

Penned by a witness to the heyday of Empire, but read by those who were soon to experience its decline, Mrs. Fenton's...  Read More >>

Although best known as a playwright and novelist, Matthew 'Monk' Lewis (1775–1818) was also a Member of Parliament...  Read More >>

The British administrator William Sleeman toured the kingdom of Oude in 1849–1850 and produced a report on its political,...  Read More >>

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early...  Read More >>

Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, this is a scholarly analysis of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

A personal and emotional travel book from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.  Read More >>

An evocative account, first published in 1883, of the final expedition to the East by Isabella Bird, the famous...  Read More >>

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784–1817) was a Swiss explorer who explored Arabia and the Middle East in the guise of a...  Read More >>

Reginald Heber (1783–1826) was appointed as the second Anglican Bishop of Calcutta in 1823. He travelled widely...  Read More >>

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784–1817) was a Swiss explorer who explored Arabia and the Middle East in the guise of an...  Read More >>