Classic travel writing books

Originally published in 1910, this volume discusses and reflects on Jessup's later years in the region. It includes...  Read More >>

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Martineau's narrative of her travels in Jacksonian America includes insights on women's place in society and observations...  Read More >>

In 1908 Arthur Wavell left England to begin his journey to Mecca, and he undertook his pilgrimage in disguise. Divided...  Read More >>

A volume first published by Bently in London in 1851 by famous British explorer of the Victorian era, Richard Burton....  Read More >>

This wide-ranging study argues that English Renaissance writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on...  Read More >>

"Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of ""othering"" which travellers bring to a place, and...  Read More >>

"Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of ""othering"" which travellers bring to a place, and...  Read More >>

In this second volume of his Travels, Delegorgue gives a first-hand description of the conflict between the Boers...  Read More >>

Presents the author's travels with his wife Fanny and their family in the Marquesas, the Paumotus and the Gilbert...  Read More >>

An epic portrayal of the lives of fur traders on the Voyageur Route from Lachine to the great summer meeting-place...  Read More >>

A young political officer's colourful adventures in the Aden hinterland at the turn of the last century.  Read More >>

"This fully-annotated edition of Anna Maria Falconbridge's ""Two Voyages to Sierra Leone"" (1794) and Mary Ann Parker's...  Read More >>

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W.C. Corsan provides a first-hand account of the Confederacy at the moment when it still believed that triumph was...  Read More >>

This delightful account of a journey around Scotland with the artist Bernhard von Lepel as companion reads as freshly...  Read More >>

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The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where political independence...  Read More >>

The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where political independence...  Read More >>

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This is a collection of tongue-in-cheek sketches of 19th-century colonial life in India, originally published in...  Read More >>

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