Classic travel writing books

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"Campbell was commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to conduct a survey of conditions in Appalachia and the...  Read More >>

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A complete reference to the Lewis & Clark expedition, covering all major elements from the preparatory work initiated...  Read More >>

Seafaring merchant Amasa Delano kept adventure-filled journals through three commercial voyages that now offer a...  Read More >>

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This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany,...  Read More >>

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In 1821, Maria Dundas Graham sailed for South America. After her husband, the ship's captain, died en route, the...  Read More >>

The journal of James Colnett is the last unpublished account of the early maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast....  Read More >>

This book is a historical sketch of archaeological explorations of the biblical lands of Assyria, Babylonia, Palestine,...  Read More >>

In 1821, Maria Dundas Graham sailed for South America. After her husband, the ship's captain, died en route, the...  Read More >>

Rediscovered in Syria in the late 19th century, this account relates the experiences of Reverend Elias al-Musili,...  Read More >>

This guide covers all major elements of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition to explore the lands west...  Read More >>

"First published in 1844, ""The Englishwoman in Egypt"" is the collected observations of Sophia Poole, who lived...  Read More >>

The extraordinary accomplishments in the travel writing and photography of Lady Brassey are the subject of Nancy...  Read More >>

Gertrude Bell, the well-known explorer and archaeologist, began her extensive travels in the Near East in 1892....  Read More >>

"""One of the ten best adventure books of all time.""—National Geographic Adventure"  Read More >>

A critical edition of Gissing's 1901 account of travels in Calabria and its Classical sites.  Read More >>

While fragments from the second century AD abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ('description') of Greece is the only fully...  Read More >>

"A translation of al-Tahtawi's ""Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz"", an Arabic account of a visit to Paris by a...  Read More >>

If what you read here makes you wish to go to the Holy Land, I shall be glad; and if you go in the right way, you...  Read More >>

A follow-up to ""The Innocents Abroad"", this book records a walking trip, focused on central Europe and the Alps,...  Read More >>