Classic travel writing books

Like many of his contemporaries Sir Arthur Conan Doyle travelled extensively. This travelogue recreates in amusing...  Read More >>

Henry James was not only a novelist who wrote with the elegance of Marcel Proust: he was also a renowned travel...  Read More >>

David Livingstone's travelogue of his expedition to the source of the Zambezi river in what is Zimbabwe today.  Read More >>

A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, ranging from the...  Read More >>

A broad-based and accessible anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance, ranging from the...  Read More >>

"In 184, French novelist Theophile Gautier was hired to write regular installments of a travelogue of his journey...  Read More >>

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Presents an account of a Frenchwoman of her decade-long stay in Brazil during the 1850s. This title paints a portrait...  Read More >>

"The world of equestrian travel seldom recognizes international borders, being content to urge its mounted adherents...  Read More >>

Presents an account of a Frenchwoman of her decade-long stay in Brazil during the 1850s. This title paints a portrait...  Read More >>

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, in some respects, is one of the most famous travelers who visited India in the 17th century....  Read More >>

The noted travel writer provides a compelling account of her failed attempt to locate the lost city of Shabwa, the...  Read More >>

This edition reproduces the text of the orginal 1984 edition, in which Ada Pryer wrote about the early years of...  Read More >>

This volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita....  Read More >>

This volume charts the sensibilities of the lonely figures that encountered the new and exotic in terra incognita....  Read More >>

Originally published in 1890 by the well-known London travel agency of Thomas Cook and Son, this tour guide by Egyptologist...  Read More >>

An enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name. Flinders...  Read More >>

This book looks at how we have confronted the idea of 'barbarism', in ourselves and others, from the conquest of...  Read More >>

John Muir's Last Journey is a must read for students and scholars of environmental history, American literature,...  Read More >>

Reinhold Rucker Angerstein was an eighteenth-century industrial spy. He travelled widely in Europe in the 1750s,...  Read More >>

From pirates, belles and balls to the status of women and the role of health care in society, Effendi's position...  Read More >>

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Townsend was a novelist, columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico during the...  Read More >>

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During the 1860s, W.D. Howells was the American consul in Venice. This text is his humorous portrait of the city....  Read More >>