Classic travel writing books

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This volume includes a critical edition and annotated translation of Evliya Celebi's descriptions of Albania and...  Read More >>

Presents the author's account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed...  Read More >>

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First published in 1892, M. French-Sheldon's book describes her 1891 expedition that took her from the court of...  Read More >>

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle in Samoa....  Read More >>

There is nothing quite like parrot pie for breakfast. First one must catch one's parrot, of course, and build the...  Read More >>

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Presents naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. The...  Read More >>

Three men and three women: a plant collector, a merchant and his novelist wife, a military officer, and two famous...  Read More >>

"Situated between the eradication of slavery under British imperialism in 1807 and emancipation in 1834-1838, the...  Read More >>

A story-book travelogue covering the big ranches of West and South Texas. It documents the fifteen largest ranches...  Read More >>

There is a view that Wordsworth's inspiration dried up before the age of forty. This book opposes that view by examining...  Read More >>

Joshua Slocum set off alone from Boston in April 1895 and went on to join the ranks of the world's great circumnavigators....  Read More >>

Partial edition of the ten-volume Book of Travels (Seyāḥat-nāme  Read More >>

This volume contains two books originally published in the 1890s. They record the discovery of the Syriac palimpsest...  Read More >>

This work tells the story of the author's six-week journey by skiff along the Ohio river. He covered 1000 miles...  Read More >>

In 1995, David W. McFadden published An Innocent in Ireland: Curious Rambles and Singular Encounters, a quirky and...  Read More >>

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This is a collection of journals written by Japanese men and women - from all levels of society - who journeyed...  Read More >>

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Rather than merely a few privileged travellers producing a few literary works, this bibliography displays that there...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1910, this volume covers the author's arrival and first impressions in Syria, moving on...  Read More >>