Classic travel writing books

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Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part II: Travel Writings on North America, the Far East, North and South Poles and the Middle East

Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part II:...
Author: Peter Kitson , Tim Fulford ISBN: 9781851967216 Format: Mixed media product	$273.00
The selection of writings reflects the diversity of the literature, revealing something of the cultural and gender... Read More >>

Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354

Travels in Asia and Africa, 1325-1354
Author: Ibn Battutah , H. A. R. Gibb ISBN: 9788173043727 Format: Hardback	$73.92
This edition, translated afresh from the Arabic text, provides extensive notes which enable the journeys to be followed... Read More >>

Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England

Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England
Author: Frederick Law Olmsted , Charles C. McLaughlin (Professor Emeritus of History, American University, Washington DC, USA) ISBN: 9781558493803 Format: Paperback	$73.79
Frederick Law Olmsted visited England and Wales during a walking tour in 1850. He recorded his impressions of the... Read More >>

Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan

Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan...
Author: George Kennan , Frith Maier ISBN: 9780295982502 Format: Hardback	$126.95
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Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Begums, Thugs and White Mughals
Author: Fanny Parkes , William Dalrymple ISBN: 9780907871880 Format: Paperback	$29.95
To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty. Read More >>

Representations of West Africa as Exotic in British Colonial Travel Writing

Representations of West Africa as Exotic in British...
Author: Claudia Gualtieri ISBN: 9780773470651 Format: Hardback	$290.27
Shows how forms of cultural negotiation operate in the British colonial discourse of West Africa in the light of... Read More >>

Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from the Golden Age of Exploration, 1800-1900

Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from the Golden...
Author: Helen Whybrow ISBN: 9780393010541 Format: Hardback	$79.07
For intensity of geographical exploration and wealth of first-rate adventure writing, the 19th century stands alone.... Read More >>

Dreams of Elsewhere: Selected Travel Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson

Dreams of Elsewhere: Selected Travel Writings of Robert...
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson , June Skinner Sawyers ISBN: 9781903238622 Format: Hardback	$60.59
Best known for his fiction, Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson was also an essayist, journalist, poet and travel... Read More >>

Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel Defoe, Part II

Writings on Travel, Discovery and History by Daniel...
Author: P N Furbank , Daniel Defoe ISBN: 9781851967230 Format: Mixed media product	$273.00
This set includes many of Defoe's key historical writings, which are crucial to an understanding of his view of... Read More >>

In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the 17th Century

In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing...
Author: Nabil Matar , Nabil Matar ISBN: 9780415932288 Format: Paperback	$51.00
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In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the 17th Century

In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing...
Author: Nabil Matar , Nabil Matar ISBN: 9780415932271 Format: Hardback	$168.00
Presents the first English translation from Arabic of four Christian and Muslim writers who visited Western Europe... Read More >>

Through Mirdite in Winter

Through Mirdite in Winter
Author: Stavre Th. Frasheri , Peter Prifti ISBN: 9780880334945 Format: Hardback	$95.04
This story of an anthropological expedition to Albania in 1929 is an account of the rugged Highlands as seen by... Read More >>

Journey to Mauritius

Journey to Mauritius
Author: Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre , Jason Wilson ISBN: 9781902669496 Format: Paperback	$44.95
A new, annotated translation of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's account of his journey in 1778-80 to the French colony... Read More >>

Korea and Her Neighbours

Korea and Her Neighbours
Author: Isabella Bird ISBN: 9780710308122 Format: Hardback	$441.00
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An Anthology of Women's Travel Writings

An Anthology of Women's Travel Writings
Author: Shirley Foster , Sara Mills ISBN: 9780719050183 Format: Paperback	$40.99
Editors present a range of writing and possible ways of being a woman traveller Read More >>

The Enchanted Isles

The Enchanted Isles
Author: Herman Melville , Margaret Drabble ISBN: 9781843910152 Format: Paperback	$36.83
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 4: From Fort Mandan to Three Forks

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 4: From...
Author: Meriwether Lewis , William Clark ISBN: 9780803280113 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Recounts their travels through country never before explored by white people. With new personnel including the Shoshone... Read More >>

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 7: From the Pacific to the Rockies

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 7: From...
Author: Meriwether Lewis , William Clark ISBN: 9780803280144 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 8: Over the Rockies to St. Louis

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 8: Over...
Author: Meriwether Lewis , William Clark ISBN: 9780803280151 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 5: Through the Rockies to the Cascades

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 5: Through...
Author: Meriwether Lewis , William Clark ISBN: 9780803280120 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 3: Up the Missouri to Fort Mandan

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 3: Up...
Author: Meriwether Lewis , William Clark ISBN: 9780803280106 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 2: From the Ohio to the Vermillion

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 2: From...
Author: Meriwether Lewis , William Clark ISBN: 9780803280090 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 6: Down the Columbia to Fort Clatsop

The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 6: Down...
Author: Meriwether Lewis , William Clark ISBN: 9780803280137 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 13-volume set

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 13-volume...
Author: Meriwether Lewis , William Clark ISBN: 9780803229488 Format: Hardback	$3669.60
This is the complete set of the celebrated Nebraska edition of... Read More >>

An Account of the Pelew Islands

An Account of the Pelew Islands
Author: Karen L. Nero , Nicholas Thomas ISBN: 9780718501556 Format: Hardback	$686.40
Comprises a critical edition of an 18th-century text describing the wreck of the East India Company packet, the... Read More >>

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