Classic travel writing books

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Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature, 1860-1912

Musashino in Tuscany: Japanese Overseas Travel Literature,...
Author: Susanna Fessler ISBN: 9781929280292 Format: Hardback	$171.60
Shows that overseas Meiji-period travel writers struck out to create a dynamic type of travel literature, one that... Read More >>

Oxford

Oxford
Author: Edward Thomas , Lucy Newlyn ISBN: 9781902669847 Format: Hardback	$59.95
A critical edition of Edward Thomas' 1903 account of Oxford. Read More >>

Riviera Nature Notes

Riviera Nature Notes
Author: Rob Cassy ISBN: 9781902669830 Format: Paperback	$39.95
Quirky, erudite and eminently readable, the fifty-four essays comprising these Notes give an astonishingly clear... Read More >>

Two Centuries of Lewis and Clark: Reflections on the Voyage of Discovery

Two Centuries of Lewis and Clark: Reflections on the...
Author: William L. Lang , Carl Abbott ISBN: 9780875952888 Format: Paperback	$47.52
Scrutinizes the motivations for the Lewis and Clark expedition and the environmental ramifications of its discoveries... Read More >>

The Broadway Travellers

The Broadway Travellers
Author: Eileen Power , E. Denison Ross ISBN: 9780415678650 Format: Hardback	$6930.00
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Travels in Asia and Africa: 1325-1354

Travels in Asia and Africa: 1325-1354
Author: Ibn Battuta , H. A. R. Gibb ISBN: 9780415344739 Format: Hardback	$225.00
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The Travels of an Alchemist: The Journey of the Taoist Ch'ang-Ch'un from China to the Hundukush at the Summons of Chingiz Khan

The Travels of an Alchemist: The Journey of the Taoist...
Author: Li Chih-Ch'ang , The Arthur Waley Estate ISBN: 9780415344906 Format: Hardback	$225.00
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Nova Francia: A Description of Acadia, 1606

Nova Francia: A Description of Acadia, 1606
Author: Marc Lescarbot , P. Erondelle ISBN: 9780415344685 Format: Hardback	$210.00
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The Travels of Marco Polo

The Travels of Marco Polo
Author: L. F. Benedetto , Aldo Ricci ISBN: 9780415344876 Format: Hardback	$225.00
Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts.... Read More >>

Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman: John Macdonald Travels (1745-1779)

Memoirs of an Eighteenth Century Footman: John Macdonald...
Author: John Macdonald , John Beresford ISBN: 9780415344678 Format: Hardback	$225.00
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Don Juan of Persia: A Shi'ah Catholic 1560-1604

Don Juan of Persia: A Shi'ah Catholic 1560-1604
Author: G. Le Strange , G. Le Strange ISBN: 9780415344883 Format: Hardback	$225.00
Don Juan was a Persian Moslem who became a Spanish Roman Catholic. His description of Persia and his account of... Read More >>

The Diary of Henry Teonge: Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships Assistance, Bristol and Royal Oak 1675-1679

The Diary of Henry Teonge: Chaplain on Board H.M's Ships...
Author: G. E Manwaring , G.E. Manwaring ISBN: 9780415344777 Format: Hardback	$225.00
An intensely human document, enlivened with sketches of the people he met and places he visited, Teonge's Diary... Read More >>

Travels into Spain

Travels into Spain
Author: Madame D'Aulnoy , R. Foulché-Delbosc ISBN: 9780415344715 Format: Hardback	$225.00
Madame D'Aulnoy was one of the most widely-read and most popular authors of her time. Seeing Spain at a strange... Read More >>

Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure

Sir Anthony Sherley and his Persian Adventure
Author: E. Denison Ross ISBN: 9780415344869 Format: Hardback	$200.00
As well as including Sherley's own account of his journey into Persia in 1600, this valuable edition includes the... Read More >>

An Account of Tibet: The Travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia, S.J. 1712- 1727

An Account of Tibet: The Travels of Ippolito Desideri...
Author: Filippo De Filippi , Filippo De Filippi ISBN: 9780415346788 Format: Hardback	$280.00
In Desideri's account we receive the first accurate general description of Tibet: from the eatural world to the... Read More >>

Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo

Travels in India, Ceylon and Borneo
Author: Captain Basil Hall , H. G. Rawlinson ISBN: 9780415344852 Format: Hardback	$225.00
Miscellaneous in their topics, and arranged without any order the volumes re-issued here have been selected for... Read More >>

The First Englishmen in India: Letters and Narratives of Sundry Elizabethans written by themselves

The First Englishmen in India: Letters and Narratives...
Author: J. Courtenay Locke , J. Courtenay Locke ISBN: 9780415344746 Format: Hardback	$525.00
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Jewish Travellers

Jewish Travellers
Author: Elkan Nathan Adler , Elkan Nathan Adler ISBN: 9780415344661 Format: Hardback	$368.00
Based on the volume of twenty-four Hebrew texts of Jewish travellers by J.D. Eisenstein, this volume begins with... Read More >>

Travels in Tartary Thibet and China, Volume Two: 1844-1846

Travels in Tartary Thibet and China, Volume Two: 1844-1846...
Author: Gabet , Paul Pelliot ISBN: 9780415344845 Format: Hardback	$152.00
Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia... Read More >>

Travels in Persia: 1627-1629

Travels in Persia: 1627-1629
Author: Thomas Herbert , William Foster ISBN: 9780415344708 Format: Hardback	$525.00
This book presents a classic text with new clarity and vigour. It gives the only detailed account of the first English... Read More >>

Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage: 1618-25

Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage: 1618-25...
Author: Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe , C. B Bodde-Hodgkinson ISBN: 9780415344722 Format: Hardback	$525.00
As well as providing an illuminating insight into the machinations of the merchants and directors of the East India... Read More >>

Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, Volume One: 1844-1846

Travels in Tartary, Thibet and China, Volume One: 1844-1846...
Author: Gabet , Paul Pelliot ISBN: 9780415344838 Format: Hardback	$194.00
Published to critical acclaim and well known for many years afterwards this account of the journey across Mongolia... Read More >>

Travels and Adventures: 1435-1439

Travels and Adventures: 1435-1439
Author: Pero Tafur , Malcolm Letts ISBN: 9780415344753 Format: Hardback	$525.00
This edition, translated and edited by Malcolm Letts, was the first complete translation of Tafur in any language.... Read More >>

Odd Tom Coryate

Odd Tom Coryate
Author: R. E. Pritchard ISBN: 9780750934169 Format: Hardback	$50.00
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Alexandria: City of Memory

Alexandria: City of Memory
Author: Michael Haag ISBN: 9780300104158 Format: Hardback	$102.96
This book is a literary, social and political portrait of Alexandria when it was one of the liveliest and most prosperous... Read More >>

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