Classic travel writing books

Italy, and especially Rome - a fashionable, exciting, and comfortable city - became the focus of the social elite...  Read More >>

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and...  Read More >>

In 1839, John Lloyd Stephens and his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood ventured into the rain forest of...  Read More >>

John Dunton, the eccentric London bookseller, left two accounts of his visit to Ireland in 1698. One, entitled The...  Read More >>

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In May of 1803 the first Russian expedition around the world set sail from Kronstadt. It sailed by way of Denmark,...  Read More >>

When British diplomats Captain William Couperus McLeod and Dr David Richardson set out on their missions to the...  Read More >>

Joshua Slocum was believed to be the first man to sail single-handed around the world. After a distinguished career,...  Read More >>

Offers observations from several early travelers to the Holy Land. This travelogue contains narratives from the...  Read More >>

These accounts portray an Egypt ruled by the despotic Mamluk sultans and the early Ottoman governors, a society...  Read More >>

"When Captain James Bonneville left for California in May of 1832 his motives were mixed. Officially, the French-born...  Read More >>

These accounts portray an Egypt ruled by the despotic Mamluk sultans and the early Ottoman governors, a society...  Read More >>

Best known for his fiction, Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson was also an essayist, journalist, poet and travel...  Read More >>

Ibn Battutah – ethnographer, bigrapher, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist – was just twenty-one when he...  Read More >>

Cecil Torrs 19th-century studies of Rhodes, in the Greek Dodecanese, off the coast of Asia Minor, were the first...  Read More >>

The travel journal of Mary Gardner Lowell's voyage from Boston to Cuba, which took place from 1831 to 1832, this...  Read More >>

Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere was one of the great traveller-naturalists of the 18th century. He is most...  Read More >>

Capturing tales of the American West told through wildly-humorous autobiographical essays by Mark Twain, this classic...  Read More >>

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Volume 2 of great explorer's classic account of explorations of lakes of Central Africa, perilous journey down unexplored...  Read More >>

Volume 1 of great explorer's classic account of explorations of lakes of Central Africa, perilous journey down unexplored...  Read More >>

Volume 2 of two-volume work. Almost single-handed discovery of Maya culture; exploration of ruined cities, monuments,...  Read More >>

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