Classic travel writing books

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Travels to Tana and Persia, and A Narrative of Italian Travels in Persia in the 15th and 16th Centuries

Travels to Tana and Persia, and A Narrative of Italian...
Author: Giosofat Barbaro , Henry Edward John Stanley ISBN: 9780511707858 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early... Read More >>

An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795: Volume 2

An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India...
Author: André Everard van Braam Houckgeest , M. L. E. Moreau de Saint-Méry ISBN: 9780511996085 Format: Undefined	$224.40
First published in French in 1797 and in this English translation in 1798, van Braam Houckgeest's 'faithful description'... Read More >>

An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the Court of the Emperor of China, in the Years 1794 and 1795: Volume 1

An Authentic Account of the Embassy of the Dutch East-India...
Author: André Everard van Braam Houckgeest , M. L. E. Moreau de Saint-Méry ISBN: 9780511996078 Format: Undefined	$224.40
First published in French in 1797 and in this English translation in 1798, van Braam Houckgeest's 'faithful description'... Read More >>

A Diary in America: Volume 4: With Remarks on its Institutions

A Diary in America: Volume 4: With Remarks on its Institutions...
Author: Frederick Marryat ISBN: 9781139058728 Format: Undefined	$224.40
Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) is remembered today as a novelist, but also wrote non-fiction. He spent 1837–8 travelling... Read More >>

A Diary in America: Volume 2: With Remarks on its Institutions

A Diary in America: Volume 2: With Remarks on its Institutions...
Author: Frederick Marryat ISBN: 9781139058704 Format: Undefined	$224.40
Frederick Marryat (1792–1848) is remembered today as a novelist, but also wrote non-fiction. He spent 1837–8 travelling... Read More >>

Notes on the United States of North America during a Phrenological Visit in 1838–39–40: Volume 2

Notes on the United States of North America during a...
Author: George Combe ISBN: 9780511694844 Format: Undefined	$224.40
George Combe (1788–1858) was an influential British phrenologist. These volumes, first published in 1840, contain... Read More >>

Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and his Viceroyalty: From the Lendas da India of Gaspar Correa; accompanied by original documents

Three Voyages of Vasco da Gama, and his Viceroyalty:...
Author: Gaspar Correa , Henry Edward John Stanley ISBN: 9780511697494 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early... Read More >>

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: Volume 7: During the Years 1799–1804

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions...
Author: Alexander von Humboldt , Aimé Bonpland ISBN: 9780511920318 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there... Read More >>

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: Volume 3: During the Years 1799–1804

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions...
Author: Alexander von Humboldt , Aimé Bonpland ISBN: 9780511920271 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there... Read More >>

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: Volume 5: During the Years 1799–1804

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions...
Author: Alexander von Humboldt , Aimé Bonpland ISBN: 9780511920295 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there... Read More >>

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: Volume 1: During the Years 1799–1804

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions...
Author: Alexander von Humboldt , Aimé Bonpland ISBN: 9780511920257 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there... Read More >>

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent: Volume 4: During the Years 1799–1804

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions...
Author: Alexander von Humboldt , Aimé Bonpland ISBN: 9780511920288 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) travelled to South America in 1799. Five years of research there... Read More >>

Notions of the Americans: Volume 1: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor

Notions of the Americans: Volume 1: Picked Up by a Travelling...
Author: James Fenimore Cooper ISBN: 9780511703126 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James... Read More >>

Italian Journeys: From Venice to Naples and Beyond

Italian Journeys: From Venice to Naples and Beyond
Author: William Dean Howells ISBN: 9781848855496 Format: Paperback	$47.52
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Upstate Travels: British Views of Nineteenth-Century New York

Upstate Travels: British Views of Nineteenth-Century...
Author: Roger M. Haydon ISBN: 9780801477232 Format: Paperback	$65.87
After the War of 1812, British travelers, intensely curious about the United States, poured across the Atlantic.... Read More >>

Telling True Tales Of Muslin Lands: Forms of Meditation in English Travel Writing, 1575-1630

Telling True Tales Of Muslin Lands: Forms of Meditation...
Author: Julia Schleck ISBN: 9781575911588 Format: Hardback	$147.84
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A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen

A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen
Author: Freya Stark ISBN: 9781848851924 Format: Paperback	$44.88
A portrait of the customs and cultures of the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. Read More >>

Gleams From Japan

Gleams From Japan
Author: S. Katsumata ISBN: 9780415679589 Format: Hardback	$368.00
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William Chapman - Reminiscences

William Chapman - Reminiscences
Author: William Chapman , Nicol Stassen ISBN: 9781869191924 Format: Hardback	$132.00
At age 60 William Chapman began writing down his memoirs and this title contains his engaging and enjoyable diary... Read More >>

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels in the Interior, Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Shrines of Nikkô and Isé

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: Volume 1: An Account of Travels...
Author: Isabella Lucy Bird ISBN: 9780511709838 Format: Undefined	$224.40
This book by Isabella Bird was created from the letters that she wrote to her sister and others. The first volume... Read More >>

Travels of Pietro della Valle in India: Volume 1: From the Old English Translation of 1664

Travels of Pietro della Valle in India: Volume 1: From...
Author: Pietro Della Valle , G. Havers ISBN: 9780511710087 Format: Undefined	$224.40
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early... Read More >>

Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer's Ride Beyond the Great Wall of China

Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary: Being a Summer's...
Author: George Fleming ISBN: 9780511709531 Format: Undefined	$224.40
First published in 1863, this is the vivid and lively account of the travels and adventures George Fleming (1833–1901)... Read More >>

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-tze of the Somo Territory

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys...
Author: Isabella Bird ISBN: 9780511709234 Format: Undefined	$224.40
Published in 1899, this is the account of Mrs. J. F. Bishop's journey through central China (1896–1897). The Geographical... Read More >>

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro,...
Author: Alfred Russel Wallace ISBN: 9780511695476 Format: Undefined	$224.40
Meticulous in its detail and impressive in its scope, Alfred R. Wallace's 1853 Narrative of Travels on the Amazon... Read More >>

An Adventurous Woman Abroad: The Selected Lantern Slides of Mary T.S. Schaffer

An Adventurous Woman Abroad: The Selected Lantern Slides...
Author: Michale Lang ISBN: 9781926855219 Format: Hardback	$79.07
Mary Schaffer, born into a Pennsylvania-based Quaker family in 1861, not only conquered international travel but... Read More >>

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