Classic travel writing books

A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this...  Read More >>

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

'It was because I was afraid that I had decided to attempt a crossing of the great Sahara desert, from west to east,...  Read More >>

In the estimation of fellow explorer Benedict Allen: 'The book, which brims with lively observations of human character,...  Read More >>

Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how concepts...  Read More >>

Gijsbert Heeck (1619-1669) was a medicinal specialist with the Dutch East India Company (VOC). His journal is based...  Read More >>

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Ibn Battuta was famous in his own lifetime during the 14th Century as the greatest traveller of the age. Here, the...  Read More >>

In the Edo period (1600-1868), status- and gender-based expectations defined a person's place and identity in society....  Read More >>

This volume follows the young Boswell in his eventful travels from the end of his legal studies in Holland until...  Read More >>

Two Persian travellers arrive in Paris and report on the European society of the Enlightenment in their letters...  Read More >>

Maupassant merges fact and fiction, dream and documentation in this seemingly simple logbook of a sailing cruise...  Read More >>

"Analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his ouvre revolves around travel as...  Read More >>

Leads readers through palaces, temples, back streets and markets, bringing back to living memory forgotten or overlooked...  Read More >>

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In 1728, William Byrd, the wealthy, English-educated master of Westover plantation, undertook a journey with a troop...  Read More >>

Part of a seven-volume facsimile set, this volume comprises firsthand accounts of France in the 1790s. It includes...  Read More >>

"Richard Twiss' ""A Tour in Ireland in 1775"", published in the following year, was a controversial book. It enraged...  Read More >>

Isabella Bird was one of the greatest travellers and travel writers of all time, and this is her last major book,...  Read More >>

A biographical dictionary that provides a guide to prominent female travelers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries....  Read More >>

Presents a series of letter written by the French poet Jean de La Fontaine to his wife, describing his travels from...  Read More >>

From acclaimed historian and novelist Natalie Zemon Davis comes an extraordinary story of a most enigmatic man....  Read More >>

A memoir of a 20-year-old aspiring Austrian botanist who traveled to Mexico in 1845. He passed through the Caribbean,...  Read More >>

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