Classic travel writing books

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Fifty Mysterious Postcards: Pitman Shorthand Messages from the Golden Age of the Postcard

Fifty Mysterious Postcards: Pitman Shorthand Messages...

Author: Kathryn Baird
ISBN: 9781803990460
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Mysterious messages from over a hundred years ago, written in the dying art of Pitman Shorthand  Read More >>

The Story of the World in 100 Moments: Discover the stories that defined humanity and shaped our world

The Story of the World in 100 Moments: Discover the...

Author: Neil Oliver
ISBN: 9781804991398
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Massmarket edition of the hardback bestseller- In The Story of the World in 100 Moments Oliver presents a remarkable...  Read More >>

The Cruise of the Betsey and Rambles of a Geologist

The Cruise of the Betsey and Rambles of a Geologist...

Author: Hugh Miller ,  Doctor Dr Michael A. Taylor
ISBN: 9781910682364
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This work is a facsimile reprint of Hugh Miller's 1857 notes recording his rambles around Scotland in the mid 1840s....  Read More >>

Life Plans on Dive Bar Napkins: A guide to travelling recklessly, living stupidly

Life Plans on Dive Bar Napkins: A guide to travelling...

Author: Paul Manser
ISBN: 9781743797464
Format: Hardback
$40.00

Kidnapped in the most expensive taxi in Mexico. Living like Frank Sinatra with a UTI in Palm Springs. Avoiding exploding...  Read More >>

My Hong Kong

My Hong Kong

Author: Malcolm Jack
ISBN: 9781398457133
Format: Paperback
$23.26

How was Hong Kong perceived and described by writers from the 1950s during the last colonial period? Was it a British...  Read More >>

My Hong Kong

My Hong Kong

Author: Malcolm Jack
ISBN: 9781398457140
Format: Hardback
$41.37

How was Hong Kong perceived and described by writers from the 1950s during the last colonial period? Was it a British...  Read More >>

A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey Through an Endangered Land

A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey...

Author: Dan Chapman
ISBN: 9781642831948
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Readers join the author on a journey through the natural wonders of the South, framed by John Muir's writings on...  Read More >>

Tales and Travels of a School Inspector

Tales and Travels of a School Inspector

Author: Sir John Wilson
ISBN: 9781839830280
Format: Paperback
$25.85

First published in 1928, this book is the personal account of John Wilson's experiences as a School Inspector, encompassing...  Read More >>

Mochileando por el mundo: Para mochileros principiantes

Mochileando por el mundo: Para mochileros principiantes...

Author: Julian Trometer
ISBN: 9788411231114
Format: Paperback
$46.32

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Desert Soul: A John Murray Journey

Desert Soul: A John Murray Journey

Author: Isabelle Eberhardt
ISBN: 9781399804783
Format: Paperback
$22.99

INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM ATKINS, author of The Immeasurable World 'I am merely an eccentric, a dreamer who wishes...  Read More >>

In a Land Far from Home: A John Murray Journey

In a Land Far from Home: A John Murray Journey

Author: Syed Mujtaba Ali
ISBN: 9781399802505
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A vivid new translation of a Bengali classic -- Syed Mujtaba Ali's account of his travels in 1920s Afghanistan....  Read More >>

Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand: A John Murray Journey

Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand: A John Murray Journey...

Author: Caroline Eden ,  Ella Christie
ISBN: 9781399805704
Format: Paperback
$22.99

INTRODUCED BY CAROLINE EDEN, award-winning author of Black Sea, Red Sands and Samarkand 'Medieval pomp, splendour,...  Read More >>

Pictures from Italy

Pictures from Italy

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781847498854
Format: Paperback
$14.99

Abounding in colour and humour, and interspersed with unforgettable set pieces, Pictures from Italy is yet another...  Read More >>

In The Footsteps Of Rama: Travels with the Ramayana

In The Footsteps Of Rama: Travels with the Ramayana...

Author: Neelesh Kulkarni ,  Vikrant Pande
ISBN: 9789394407978
Format: Paperback
$30.95

Vikrant Pande and Neelesh Kulkarni's quest to retrace the trail of Rama's fabled travels during his years in exile...  Read More >>

Too Late to Turn Back

Too Late to Turn Back

Author: Barbara Greene ,  Keggie Carew
ISBN: 9781914198359
Format: Paperback
$22.99

'It was stimulating and exciting, and I wrote down that hewas the best kind of companion one could have for a tripof...  Read More >>

London Alleyways Map

London Alleyways Map

Author: Matthew Turner ,  Nigel Green
ISBN: 9781912018871
Format: Sheet map
$19.95

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When Dreams Collide: Travels in Yugoslavia with Rebecca West

When Dreams Collide: Travels in Yugoslavia with Rebecca...

Author: Nicholas Allan
ISBN: 9781910533635
Format: Hardback
$64.69

When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan's intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia as he explores...  Read More >>

Winter in Majorca: Translated and Introduced by Robert Graves

Winter in Majorca: Translated and Introduced by Robert...

Author: George Sand
ISBN: 9781912945252
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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Journal of a Few Month's Residence in Portugal: And Glimpses of the South of Spain

Journal of a Few Month's Residence in Portugal: And...

Author: Dora Wordsworth
ISBN: 9781912945245
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Dora, William's Wordsworth's daughter, left this fascinating and vivid account of her stay in Portugal in 1845....  Read More >>

Pictures from Italy

Pictures from Italy

Author: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781912945238
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Timeless travel writing from a classic author, Charles Dickens' vivid descriptions of touring Italy at the dawn...  Read More >>

The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The California Days of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Brian C. Wilson
ISBN: 9781625346438
Format: Paperback
$71.15

In the spring of 1871, Ralph Waldo Emerson took month-and-a-half-long tour of California - an interlude that became...  Read More >>

The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville, William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels...

Author: Michael G. Brennan
ISBN: 9781032319353
Format: Paperback
$81.99

A focus of three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe in the 17th century,...  Read More >>

João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan

João Rodrigues's Account of Sixteenth-Century Japan...

Author: João Rodrigues ,  Michael Cooper
ISBN: 9781032319339
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Joao Rodrigues was appointed to compile a history of the Jesuit mission in Japan, 1549-1620. This account describes...  Read More >>

Pieter van den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612)

Pieter van den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape...

Author: Pieter van den Broecke ,  James D. La Fleur
ISBN: 9781032319469
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This volume offers those parts of Pieter Van den Broecke's manuscript that describe the four trading voyages he...  Read More >>

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