Classic travel writing books

This edition, translated afresh from the Arabic text, provides extensive notes which enable the journeys to be followed...  Read More >>

The vast and expanding Russian empire of the eighteenth century was inhabited by a great number of peoples. This...  Read More >>

Keith Waterhouse has produced a book, drawn from his experience of travel, which will appeal to both the intrepid...  Read More >>

A selection of writing by the most unknown great traveller.  Read More >>

From Napoleon Bonaparte with his schemes to control the overland route to India, to tomb-raiders such as Giovanni...  Read More >>

Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.  Read More >>

This text offers a translation of Antonio de Sosa's sixteenth-century chronicle of his travels in North Africa,...  Read More >>

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

Yemen is justly famed as one of the world's most dramatically beautiful countries. Seen in the Yemen brings the...  Read More >>

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Published in 1848, Sir Edward Belcher's account of the Eastern Archipelago appealed to Victorian readers' enthusiasm...  Read More >>

First published in 1905, English Hours is one of Henry James' most loved works of travel and a now-classic portrait...  Read More >>

Trevelyan's fascinating and often controversial 'letters' combine recognition of cultural relativity, the dangers...  Read More >>

In the 14th century, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes,...  Read More >>

"Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit...  Read More >>

This volume gives a popular description of Iran and was the result of the author’s extensive travelling in the country...  Read More >>

This volume is an account of the journey the author made between Eastern Russia (via Tabriz) to Teheran at the turn...  Read More >>

Living for thirty years in the Gilbert and Ellis Islands, Grimble was ultimately initiated but not before he was...  Read More >>

A biography of five intrepid women who, by travelling abroad and working as governesses in Russia, achieved an intellectual...  Read More >>

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The first ever translation in English of the medieval monk's travels in Egypt  Read More >>

This eight-volume set in two parts gives voice to some intrepid women travellers touring post-Napoleonic France....  Read More >>

These extraordinarily rich and often profound texts constitute the indispensable record of their intertwined engagement...  Read More >>

Freya Stark was witness to the rise and fall of the British involvement in the country as well as the early years...  Read More >>