Classic travel writing books

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Wanderings in Arabia

Wanderings in Arabia

Author: Charles M. Doughty
ISBN: 9781848300330
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Being an Abridgment of Travels in Arabia Deserta. A facsimile reprint.  Read More >>

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: A Woman's Journey Among the Treasures of Ancient Egypt

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile: A Woman's Journey Among...

Author: Amelia B. Edwards
ISBN: 9781906393076
Format: Paperback
$31.05

Travelling by dahabiah, a well-appointed sailing craft peculiar to the Nile, and armed with sketch-book and measuring...  Read More >>

Through a Land of Extremes

Through a Land of Extremes

Author: Elizabeth Clinch ,  Nick Clinch
ISBN: 9780750947824
Format: Hardback
$55.00

In the nineteenth century, Teresa and George Littledale were known as the greatest English explorers of their day,...  Read More >>

Travels in the Interior of Africa: Volume 1

Travels in the Interior of Africa: Volume 1

Author: Mungo Park
ISBN: 9781434671776
Format: Paperback
$57.42

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Travels in the Interior of Africa: Volume 2

Travels in the Interior of Africa: Volume 2

Author: Mungo Park
ISBN: 9781434671783
Format: Paperback
$52.14

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Travels in the Interior of Africa: Volume 2

Travels in the Interior of Africa: Volume 2

Author: Mungo Park
ISBN: 9781434671790
Format: Paperback
$54.78

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Travels in the Interior of Africa: Volume 1

Travels in the Interior of Africa: Volume 1

Author: Mungo Park
ISBN: 9781434671769
Format: Paperback
$52.14

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Islamic and Middle Eastern Travellers and Geographers

Islamic and Middle Eastern Travellers and Geographers...

Author: Ian Richard Netton ,  Ian Netton
ISBN: 9780415351898
Format: Mixed media product
$1995.00

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Americans and the Making of the Riviera

Americans and the Making of the Riviera

Author: Michael Nelson
ISBN: 9780786431601
Format: Paperback
$43.95

From the inception of American tourism in the late 18th century, this volume explores over 200 years of American...  Read More >>

The Heart of the Antarctic and South

The Heart of the Antarctic and South

Author: Ernest Henry Shackleton ,  Beau Riffenburgh
ISBN: 9781840226164
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of the third. His expedition...  Read More >>

Alone in Mexico: The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller, 1845-1848

Alone in Mexico: The Astonishing Travels of Karl Heller,...

Author: Karl Bartolomeus Heller ,  Terry Rugeley
ISBN: 9780817354565
Format: Paperback
$86.99

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

Across China on Foot

Across China on Foot

Author: Edwin John Dingle ,  Graham Earnshaw
ISBN: 9789889987442
Format: Paperback
$57.95

First published in 1911, this is one of the most important and best written travel books from old China. Edwin Dingle...  Read More >>

The Travels of Marco Polo

The Travels of Marco Polo

Author: Marco Polo
ISBN: 9781602068612
Format: Paperback
$28.91

Marco Polo's classic account of his travels throughout the East in the 13th century is one of the earliest European...  Read More >>

A Voyage in the Sunbeam: A Family Sailing Around the World for Eleven Months

A Voyage in the Sunbeam: A Family Sailing Around the...

Author: Anna Brassey
ISBN: 9781906393052
Format: Paperback
$43.99

"Annie, Lady Brassey was a very popular Victorian author. She travelled with her husband, Thomas and their four...  Read More >>

The Lost Trappers

The Lost Trappers

Author: David Coyner
ISBN: 9781602067967
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Recollections of Europe

Recollections of Europe

Author: James Fenimore Cooper
ISBN: 9781602068131
Format: Paperback
$39.47

[...] Monarchy.-Orangery at Versailles. LETTER XI. Laws of Intercourse.-Americans in Europe.-Americans and English.[...]....  Read More >>

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of his Writings on the Country and it's People

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan: An Anthology of his Writings...

Author: Lafcadio Hearn ,  Donald Richie
ISBN: 9784805308738
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Lafcadio Hearn is one of the best-known Westerners to ever make Japan his home  Read More >>

Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625

Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English...

Author: Andrew Hadfield (, English Department, University of Sussex)
ISBN: 9780199233656
Format: Paperback
$100.95

This wide-ranging study argues that English Renaissance writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on...  Read More >>

Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the Desert into Egypt: During the Years 1799, 1800, and 1801 in Company with the Turkish Army and the British Military Mission

Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the...

Author: William Wittman
ISBN: 9781593337247
Format: Hardback
$393.36

A historic travelogue with an eye toward the medical conditions encountered along the way, this rare book sheds...  Read More >>

In the Strange South Seas: Travel and Adventures of an Irish Woman in the South Pacific in 1907

In the Strange South Seas: Travel and Adventures of...

Author: Beatrice Grimshaw
ISBN: 9781906393014
Format: Paperback
$31.05

"Beatrice Grimshaw was born in Ireland. She was an adventurer at heart since childhood and an independent soul...  Read More >>

Thomas Allom's Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor

Thomas Allom's Constantinople and the Scenery of the...

Author: Mark Wilson
ISBN: 9781593331399
Format: Hardback
$443.52

Allom traveled through Constantinople, Bursa, and the Aegean region making drawings. Allom's scenic portraiture,...  Read More >>

In Morocco

In Morocco

Author: Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9781426445996
Format: Paperback
$54.78

EDITH WHARTON journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook...  Read More >>

Italian Hours

Italian Hours

Author: Henry James
ISBN: 9781426452314
Format: Paperback
$86.46

A highly personal guide to the beauties of Italy. Henry James writes about his travels through Tuscany at the turn...  Read More >>

Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe

Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe

Author: Thomas Betteridge
ISBN: 9780754653516
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and travel, concepts that appealed and appalled in equal measure....  Read More >>

A South Indian Journey: The Smile of Murugan

A South Indian Journey: The Smile of Murugan

Author: Michael Wood
ISBN: 9780141032672
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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