Classic travel writing books

The book traces the ways in which the constantly changing ideal image of ancient Greece, its art, politics and culture,...  Read More >>

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Short and literary guide to Venice's Lido, in the Blue Guides' new Travel Monographs series.  Read More >>

‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and...  Read More >>

Explores the particularities of the Shell Guides and examines them in a cultural context. From their inception in...  Read More >>

The so-called Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356) was one of the most popular books of the late Middle Ages,...  Read More >>

The 12th century minaret of Djam is one of Afghanistan's most celebrated treasures, a magnificent symbol of the...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Istanbul, the Ottoman army, and Jews as seen by Spanish travellers in the eighteenth,...  Read More >>

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Finland in the eighteenth century was not a destination for the faint-hearted. Travellers told of winter temperatures...  Read More >>

Bon Voyage is an indispensable companion for your cabin, or even for a deckchair up on the sun deck.  Read More >>

Edited, with a Life of the Author, an Introduction and Notes. Letters 1-3, 1623. This and the following volume (First...  Read More >>

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

In this unique anthology, for the first time William Bartram's visionary Travels is joined with essays acknowledging...  Read More >>

Reveals the roots of a fascination with the Byzantine world that would become refined in Byron's later writings...  Read More >>

A work of an Englishman, a desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration...  Read More >>

This is the original English translation of the first Indian Muslim woman's experiences in the West. Presented with...  Read More >>

W. Rickmer Rickmers (1873–1965) was a German explorer who visited central Asia five times between 1894 and 1906....  Read More >>

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Henry Miller's landmark travel book, now reissued in a new edition, is ready to be stuffed into any vagabond's backpack....  Read More >>

Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one...  Read More >>

Collected here for the first time, a hugely entertaining selection of Michael Frayn's classic travel writing - including...  Read More >>

Jan Morris has been a travel writer for over half a century, known for her ability to perfectly capture places and...  Read More >>