Classic travel writing books

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian...  Read More >>

Captain Frederick Burnaby's secret unofficial mission was to discover if the caravan city of Khiva, closed to all...  Read More >>

In 1889 two young girls left the relative security of their convent boarding school in Dublin to embark on a journey...  Read More >>

In 1795, the 24 year old Scottish surgeon Mungo Park set out from the Gambia to trace the Niger's course. This journal...  Read More >>

Follows the classic travel adventures of the late-nineteenth-century woman, who defied the conventions of Victorian...  Read More >>

This travel diary provides a unique perspective of a domestic servant in the wealthy Lowell family in Boston. Staying...  Read More >>

This true story details the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author was a...  Read More >>

The Sierra Club founder and eminent conservationist narrates a memorable Alaskan travelogue. Muir's observations...  Read More >>

Down on his luck in old age, Horn recounts his wild youth as an ivory trader in central Africa, journeying into...  Read More >>

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The USA's first political scientist, Francis Lieber was the founder of the Encyclopedia Americana, wrote the Civil...  Read More >>

Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have...  Read More >>

'The Oxford Book of Travel Stories' brings together some of the best short fiction on this subject from writers...  Read More >>

The Marquis de Custine's record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account...  Read More >>

Richard Champion Rawlins, a twenty-year-old Liverpool cotton broker, sailed to the United States in 1839 to collect...  Read More >>

"Begins with an account of the coronation of Emperor Ras Tafari - Haile Selassie I, King of Kings - an event covered...  Read More >>

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An account of Robert Louis Stevenson's journey from Scotland to California to claim his future wife from her first...  Read More >>

This exciting and sometimes humorous look at a remarkable episode in American history is told by the actual words...  Read More >>

"Dover has reprinted the epic story of the expedition undertaken by the journalist Henry Stanley at the expense...  Read More >>

"A journal from British Columbia, ""Notes from the Century Before"", has an introduction by David Quammen."  Read More >>

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

In 1938 Graham Greene was commissioned to visit Mexico to discover the state of the country and its people in the...  Read More >>

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>