Classic travel writing books

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A Review of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America: In the Years 1827 and 1828

A Review of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America:...

Author: Richard Biddle ,  Richard American
ISBN: 9781141480180
Format: Paperback
$57.42

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing...  Read More >>

Tunis: The Land and the People

Tunis: The Land and the People

Author: Chevalier de Hesse-Wartegg
ISBN: 9781859642313
Format: Paperback
$64.66

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The Silverado Squatters: A Sojourn in Napa County, California, in the Summer of 1880

The Silverado Squatters: A Sojourn in Napa County, California,...

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781845119904
Format: Paperback
$44.75

A memoir of the author that is punctuated with colourful portrayals of the quirky and eccentric people who inhabited...  Read More >>

Old Calabria

Old Calabria

Author: Norman Douglas
ISBN: 9781848851139
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Calabria. A dramatic peninsula of rugged mountains and windswept coastlines facing Sicily - 'the most beautiful...  Read More >>

Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine

Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine

Author: James Fenimore Cooper
ISBN: 9781443817097
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Cooper published, eventually, five volumes of travel writings in epistolary form on his journeys around western...  Read More >>

Notions of the Americans

Notions of the Americans

Author: James Fenimore Cooper
ISBN: 9781443817189
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Notions of the Americans, in its mixture of description of places and events with political analysis, is essentially...  Read More >>

Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland

Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland

Author: James Fenimore Cooper
ISBN: 9781443817158
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Cooper published, eventually, five volumes of travel writings in epistolary form on his journeys around western...  Read More >>

British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901

British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901

Author: Elizabeth H Chang
ISBN: 9781851966257
Format: Mixed media product
$1260.00

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A Photographer on the Hajj: The Travels of Muhammad ‘Ali Effendi Sa‘udi (1904/1908)

A Photographer on the Hajj: The Travels of Muhammad...

Author: Farid Kioumgi ,  Robert Graham
ISBN: 9789774162909
Format: Hardback
$92.27

The diaries of Mohammed Ali Effendi Sa'oudi, a civil servant and accomplished photographer, offer a rare glimpse...  Read More >>

Qian Qianyi's Reflections on Yellow Mountain - Traces of a Late-Ming Hatchet and Chisel

Qian Qianyi's Reflections on Yellow Mountain - Traces...

Author: Stephen Mcdowall
ISBN: 9789622090842
Format: Hardback
$132.00

The noted Chinese poet and literary historian Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) was a prominent architect of Ming literary...  Read More >>

The Chicago of Europe: And Other Tales of Foreign Travel

The Chicago of Europe: And Other Tales of Foreign Travel...

Author: Mark Twain ,  Peter Kaminsky
ISBN: 9781402758690
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Features travel yarns.  Read More >>

Travellers' Accounts as Source Material for Irish Historians

Travellers' Accounts as Source Material for Irish Historians...

Author: C. J. Woods
ISBN: 9781846821325
Format: Paperback
$38.95

Intended as an aid to Irish historians on the use of travel narratives as source-material. This guide features a...  Read More >>

Travellers' Accounts as Source Material for Irish Historians

Travellers' Accounts as Source Material for Irish Historians...

Author: C. J. Woods
ISBN: 9781846821318
Format: Hardback
$91.95

Intended as an aid to Irish historians on the use of travel narratives as source-material. This guide features a...  Read More >>

Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South India 1798-1801

Birds of Passage: Henrietta Clive's Travels in South...

Author: Nancy K Shields
ISBN: 9781906011376
Format: Hardback
$105.47

This story has waited 200 years to be told. The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive take us on a double journey, across...  Read More >>

Traveling through the Deserts of Egypt: From 450 b.c. to the Twentieth Century

Traveling through the Deserts of Egypt: From 450 b.c....

Author: Sahar Abdel-Hakim ,  Deborah Manley
ISBN: 9789774163135
Format: Hardback
$65.87

For generations, travelers have been lured by the beauty and mesmerizing stillness of Egypt's deserts, leaving behind...  Read More >>

Across the Plains: with Other Memories and Essays

Across the Plains: with Other Memories and Essays

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN: 9781116947663
Format: Paperback
$83.82

This collection of essays from the 1880s appeared two years before Stevenson's early death.  Read More >>

Piss-pots, Printers and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-century Dublin: Richard Twiss's Tour of Ireland

Piss-pots, Printers and Public Opinion in Eighteenth-century...

Author: Martyn Powell
ISBN: 9781846821936
Format: Paperback
$24.95

Explores the visit of the English tourist Richard Twiss to Ireland and the resulting controversy - enthusiastically...  Read More >>

Cape Cod

Cape Cod

Author: Henry David Thoreau ,  Annie Russell Marble
ISBN: 9781116330748
Format: Paperback
$75.90

The man whose name is synonymous with contemplative rural life took a series of walking trips around Cape Cod. These...  Read More >>

Wanderings in Arabia

Wanderings in Arabia

Author: Charles M. Doughty
ISBN: 9781116687088
Format: Paperback
$78.54

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Rambles And Studies In Greece

Rambles And Studies In Greece

Author: P. Mahaffy
ISBN: 9781116797275
Format: Paperback
$97.02

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Wanderings in Arabia

Wanderings in Arabia

Author: Charles Montagu Doughty ,  Edward Garnett
ISBN: 9781116457261
Format: Paperback
$78.54

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1908 Original Publisher: Duckworth Subjects: Arabian...  Read More >>

The Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail

Author: Francis Parkman ,  William MacDonald
ISBN: 9781116384901
Format: Paperback
$91.74

Written by the author who in order to learn first hand about the Indians of the Plains, prepared himself with guides,...  Read More >>

The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health in Portugal, Italy, Switz

The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour...

Author: Henry Matthews
ISBN: 9781116270266
Format: Paperback
$107.58

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each...  Read More >>

Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828

Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828...

Author: Basil Hall
ISBN: 9781116400526
Format: Paperback
$97.02

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