Classic travel writing books

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Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History of British Ideas about Afghanistan

Chasing Tales: Travel Writing, Journalism and the History...
Author: Corinne Fowler ISBN: 9789042022621 Format: Paperback	$237.34
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Java, the Garden of the East: Travel and Adventures of an American Woman in Java in 1897

Java, the Garden of the East: Travel and Adventures...
Author: Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore ISBN: 9781906393021 Format: Paperback	$28.46
Originally published in 1922 by The Century Co., New York. Read More >>

Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh

Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in...
Author: John Elder ISBN: 9780813925769 Format: Hardback	$79.20
A combination of environmental history, travel writing, literary criticism, and memoir, this book features a pivotal... Read More >>

Two Years Before the Mast

Two Years Before the Mast
Author: Richard Henry Dana , Peter Joyce ISBN: 9781860150289 Format: Audio	$158.27
In 1834 Richard Henry Dana, aged nineteen, broke off his studies at Harvard and enlisted as a Jack-tar on the brig... Read More >>

The Englishman, the Moor and the Holy City: The True Adventures of an Elizabethan Traveller

The Englishman, the Moor and the Holy City: The True...
Author: Joan Taylor ISBN: 9780752440095 Format: Hardback	$51.75
In Palestine, a Moor from Fez on his way to Mecca saves Timberlake’s life, not once, but twice, and they become... Read More >>

The Literary Tourist

The Literary Tourist
Author: N. Watson ISBN: 9780230210929 Format: Paperback	$79.20
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary... Read More >>

The Literary Tourist

The Literary Tourist
Author: N. Watson ISBN: 9781403999924 Format: Hardback	$126.00
This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary... Read More >>

Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Letters, Diaries, and Drawings, 1865–1866, Bilingual Edition/Edição Bilíngue

Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Letters, Diaries,...
Author: William James , Maria Helena P. T. Machado ISBN: 9780674021334 Format: Hardback	$79.07
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Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the Blank Spaces

Travel Writing in the Nineteenth Century: Filling the...
Author: Tim Youngs ISBN: 9781843312185 Format: Hardback	$115.00
An insightful and illuminating collection of essays on the political and cultural dynamics of travel literature... Read More >>

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents

Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents
Author: William Beckford , Robert J. Gemmett ISBN: 9781845881610 Format: Hardback	$64.69
The inspiration from The Grand Tour in 1780-81 Read More >>

A Reader in Edo Period Travel

A Reader in Edo Period Travel
Author: Herbert Plutschow ISBN: 9781901903232 Format: Hardback	$250.80
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Egypt Travel Sketches from the Orient (Karl Ludwig Libay)

Egypt Travel Sketches from the Orient (Karl Ludwig Libay)...
Author: Lucie Storchova , Dusan Magdolen ISBN: 9788086277509 Format: Hardback	$237.60
This is a modern edition of a richly illustrated travelogue of Austrian painter, Karl L Libay. He visited Egypt... Read More >>

Europe: An Intimate Journey

Europe: An Intimate Journey
Author: Jan Morris ISBN: 9780571233120 Format: Paperback	$32.99
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Six Months in the Hijaz: Journeys to Makkah and Madinah 1877-1878

Six Months in the Hijaz: Journeys to Makkah and Madinah...
Author: John Keane ISBN: 9780954970116 Format: Hardback	$92.40
A facsimile edition of Six Months in Meccah and My Journey to Medinah , with an introduction by William Facey.... Read More >>

Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910

Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour,...
Author: Anne S.W. LeClercq , Carol Blesser ISBN: 9781570036330 Format: Hardback	$92.27
"Elizabeth """"Lizzie"""" Sinkler married into Philadelphia's wealthy Coxe family in 1870. Widowed just three years... Read More >>

Hippos, Hairpins and High Button Boots

Hippos, Hairpins and High Button Boots
Author: Mary H. Kingsley , Nick McCarty ISBN: 9780955139468 Format: Audio	$28.44
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From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing

From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological...
Author: Brian Fagan (, Emeritus Profsesor of Anthropology, University of California) ISBN: 9780195160918 Format: Hardback	$47.95
This anthology, selected and edited by Brain Fagan, encompasses tales that fall into a little known literary genre,... Read More >>

Travels in Arabia. Comprehending an Account of those Territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as Sacred

Travels in Arabia. Comprehending an Account of those...
Author: John Lewis Burckhardt ISBN: 9781406800814 Format: Paperback	$47.26
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Sons of Sindbad: Sailing with the Arabs in Their Dhows, in the Red Sea, Round the Coasts of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika, Pearling in the Persian Gulf, and the Life of the Shipmasters and the Mariners of Kuwait

Sons of Sindbad: Sailing with the Arabs in Their Dhows,...
Author: Alan Villiers , William Facey ISBN: 9780954479237 Format: Hardback	$132.00
Alan Villiers (1903-82), the Australian sailor and maritime historian, first made a name for himself as an adventurer... Read More >>

Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-century Traveler from Baghdad to the Volga River

Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-century Traveler...
Author: Richard Frye , Richard Frye ISBN: 9781558763661 Format: Paperback	$65.87
An English translation of the risala, letters by the 10th-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval... Read More >>

Travels of Sir John Maundeville, 1322-1356

Travels of Sir John Maundeville, 1322-1356
Author: E C Coleman ISBN: 9781845880750 Format: Paperback	$25.88
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Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-century Traveler from Baghdad to the Volga River

Ibn Fadlan's Journey to Russia: A Tenth-century Traveler...
Author: R. N. Frye , R. N. Frye ISBN: 9781558763654 Format: Hardback	$191.48
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Travels in the Interior of Africa - Two Volumes

Travels in the Interior of Africa - Two Volumes
Author: Mungo Park ISBN: 9781847023896 Format: Paperback	$31.42
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Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier

Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier
Author: Geraldine Barnes with Gabrielle Singleton , Gabrielle Singleton ISBN: 9781904303510 Format: Hardback	$103.47
The essays in this collection -- a selection of papers presented at the University of Sydney Centre for Medieval... Read More >>

Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America

Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America...
Author: Susan Clair Imbarrato ISBN: 9780821416747 Format: Hardback	$113.39
A study, with the actual accounts, of early American women's travel writings. Together these records and the editor's... Read More >>

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