Classic travel writing books

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The European city was transformed when public lighting was introduced in the last century and night life was made...  Read More >>

Muir's enchantment with Alaska began only twelve years after American purchased it from Russia in 1867. Here, after...  Read More >>

Arthur Symons's collection of twenty-six essays on travel in Spain, life in London, and sojourns among islands and...  Read More >>

Presents the author's account of travelling in Europe. Cast in the form of a walking tour through Germany, Switzerland,...  Read More >>

The nineteenth-century naturalist describes his first visit to the High Sierra and the Yosemite.  Read More >>

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In the manner of 18th-century satire, Liam O'Flaherty writes what purports to be a general guide to Ireland for...  Read More >>

Describes the social, economic and political conditions in the 1850s. Dimock's entries of his travels and observations...  Read More >>

John Muir lived, as he put it, 'in an infinite storm of beauty.' 'No other writer is so ceaselessly astonished by...  Read More >>

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Famed playwright's beautiful, poetic 1907 memoir of life in an Irish fishing community. Superb retelling of folklore...  Read More >>

Great 19th-century mariner's thrilling, firsthand account of the wreck of his ship off South America, the 35-foot...  Read More >>

A humane, open-minded voice shines across the centuries through these letters - witty, life-affirming, joyous, self-deprecating...  Read More >>

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"The Discoverie narrates Walter Raleigh's expedition to South America in quest of an indigenous ""empire"" in the...  Read More >>

A collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travel accounts by British tourists visiting the Low Countries....  Read More >>

Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain...  Read More >>

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Full of prejudice, grousing, sharp observation and caustic satire, this modern literature travel book goes beyond...  Read More >>

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Thomas Rodney as a land commissioner and a territorial judge in the...  Read More >>

Drawing on travel writings by British women in India, this study looks at different aspects that women focus on...  Read More >>

An engaging overview of the young American republic. It offers a new look at old Philadelphia, fresh and informative...  Read More >>

This volume brings together short fiction on a range of travel subjects from writers such as Anthony Trollope, Edith...  Read More >>