Classic travel writing books

Anthony Henday, a young Hudson's Bay Company employee, set out from York Factory in June 1754 to winter with trading...  Read More >>

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A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean...  Read More >>

A collection and translation of seventeenth-century narratives about Europeans travelling across the great Ocean...  Read More >>

This anthology places the works of such well-known figures as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside...  Read More >>

A translation of the 1595 narrative by teenager Fray Andres de San Miguel, describing his two-year odyssey from...  Read More >>

This anthology places the works of such well-known figures as Captain James Cook and Robert Louis Stevenson alongside...  Read More >>

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

The selection of writings reflects the diversity of the literature, revealing something of the cultural and gender...  Read More >>

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

This is a reprint of the Second Edition of this work which contains considerably more information than the first...  Read More >>

Paints a picture of the Hebrides at a seminal point in its history. This title offers information on the customs,...  Read More >>

Arthur Evans gained international recognition as the excavator of the palace of Knossos on Crete and the inventor...  Read More >>

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During the 19th century the Balkan countries became the subject of a rather romantic fascination for the public...  Read More >>

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Domenico was the name taken by a rabbi and doctor from Safed in Palestine on his conversion to Catholicism in 1593....  Read More >>

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When C.B. Klunzinger left Europe in 1863 he had it in mind to make a zoological investigation of the Red Sea and...  Read More >>

[...]SAILOR A FATEFUL BARGAIN EXCUSABLE BIAS THE TRIAL SCENE A REFLECTION ON THE HORSE TRIUMPH OF MATTER OVER MIND...  Read More >>

This large print edition recounts the true adventures of a young martial arts student in China. Told as a series...  Read More >>

Over 40 years after the beginning of the Hakluyt Society project, completion is achieved with the publication of...  Read More >>

This classic travel book details Isabella Bird's 1878 trip, where she set out alone to explore the interior of Japan--a...  Read More >>

When Charles Dickens set out for America in 1842 he was the most famous man of his day to travel there - curious...  Read More >>