Classic travel writing books

"Lt Edward Fitzgerald Beale led the nation's first and only ""camel corps"" expedition. Joining him was nineteen-year-old...  Read More >>

Mabel Virginia Anna Hall-Dare, the wife of English archaeologist and explorer James Theodore Bent, kept a series...  Read More >>

Presents an account of the travels in Central Asia and India of the seventh-century Chinese scholar-monk, Xuanzang....  Read More >>

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An important document about Black Africa written by a non-European medieval historian. He wrote disapprovingly of...  Read More >>

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This large print title is set in Tieras 16pt font as reccomended by the RNIB.  Read More >>

Alongside noteworthy names like Amelia Earhart, and Teddy Roosevelt, other less famous travelers take us on long-forgotten...  Read More >>

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Letters from America, by Rupert Brooke; with a Preface by Henry James  Read More >>

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS series. The creators of this series are united by passion for literature...  Read More >>

A vivid tale of what happened when two women, some donkeys and a dog named Whiskey set off on the world-famous Stevenson...  Read More >>

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Since the Roman emperor Hadrian built the first frontier in AD 120, the border area between England and Scotland...  Read More >>

This is a primary source collection of narratives about travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa,...  Read More >>

1290), ""A Korean Official's Account of China"" (1488), ""The Poetry of Basho's Road"" (1689), ""Malabari: A Love-Hate...  Read More >>

This first complete reprint of Boswell's book on Corsica since the eighteenth century contains both parts of the...  Read More >>

The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6  Read More >>

Provides a firsthand account of William Penn's 1677 travels in Holland and Germany visiting Quaker congregations...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Clemens's love affair with Bermuda, a depiction of a celebrated author on recurring vacations....  Read More >>

By the end of the eighteenth century, British travellers had fanned out to every corner of the world. In letters,...  Read More >>

The autobiography of the Duke of Pirajno, who worked for eighteen years as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia,...  Read More >>

Contents: Introduction ( Sarah Searight ); Travelling to post: Lady Liston, an ambassadress in Constantinople (...  Read More >>

A study of how narratives of travel through the antebellum South helped construct an American national identity...  Read More >>

The definitive biography of the celebrated traveller and explorer Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional...  Read More >>