Classic travel writing books

Isabella Bird was an intrepid 19th-century traveller, who visited Persia, Kurdistan, Tibet, Korea and China during...  Read More >>

Alexis de Tocqueville visited Ireland in the company of his good friend Gustave de Beaumont in July and August of...  Read More >>

First published in 1866, this narrative is based on the journals of Charles Brooke, nephew of the second Rajah Brooke,...  Read More >>

When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the...  Read More >>

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In addition to the examination of Bornu, this volume recounts Nachtigal's journey south-eastward from Lake Chad,...  Read More >>

The Mirror of the Sea in which Conrad describes his experiences of particular ships, captains, winds, storms, oceans,...  Read More >>

Great travel classic offers a vivid portrait of 17th-century life at the court of the Shah: social customs, geography,...  Read More >>

This volume offers early 20th-century descriptions of Bangkok; Buddhist religion, temples and the monkhood; Siamese...  Read More >>

This is a scholarly edition, annotated and illustrated, addressing the modern reader. Dickens fans and students...  Read More >>

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This book surveys historical descriptions of Constantinople by visitors from the Middle Ages to the 18th and 19th...  Read More >>

A dictionary-format guide to the language of Jung's writings, and of analytical psychology generally.  Read More >>

Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine is an account of James Fenimore Cooper's travels in Europe at the time of the 1832...  Read More >>

Following his celebrated journey to Meccah, Burton set out on a similarly perilous journey to Harrar in the heart...  Read More >>

Carl Bock was a Norwegian natural scientist whose journeys to northern Thailand and Laos had the support of H.M....  Read More >>

Baron Vivant Denon accompanied Napoleon on his Egyptian campaign in 1798. His journal contains an account of French...  Read More >>

A hybrid of history and biography, Maurice Collis’s The Land of the Great Image concerns a little-known Portuguese...  Read More >>

Soon after returning from his celebrated journey to Mecca disguised as an Arab, Burton set out on a similarly perilous...  Read More >>

A study of the natural history of Somaliland by a celebrated Victorian writer, traveller and big-game hunter. Contains...  Read More >>

A scholarly edition of a work by Samuel Johnson. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction,...  Read More >>

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Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides form a natural pair for...  Read More >>

This is a collection of articles written by the pioneering naturalist for the San Francisco Evening Bulletin in...  Read More >>