Classic travel writing books

While Dianalee Velie was teaching poetry in Italy, she composed these poems to reflect her love of the country and...  Read More >>

Bertram Thomas was a key person in Iraq's & Oman's early 20th-century development. Alarms and Excursions in Arabia...  Read More >>

The life and works of Bertram Thomas in Iraq and Oman. Bertram Thomas was not only the first non Arab to cross...  Read More >>

The volume contains the first, and only, English translation of Richard Bermann's Ireland, produced by Dr Leesa...  Read More >>

From April to June 1900, Pierre Loti travelled in a private capacity from Bushire on the Persian Gulf, northwards...  Read More >>

This special facsimlie of the original book provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of two artists and their...  Read More >>

For twenty-five years, John Micklewright rushed through France in his haste to get to Italy. In this journey of...  Read More >>

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all of Waugh's...  Read More >>

ARABIA FELIX - The Annotated Account of the First Crossing of the Rub Al Khali Desert by a non-Arab.  Read More >>

Sunny and Al Lockwood's joyful memoir of cruising the St. Lawrence Seaway includes visits to famed parks, the Maritimes,...  Read More >>

Take an artistic pilgrimage to some of the worlds most inspirational places for aesthetes and creatives with Artistic...  Read More >>

This new edition of Arabia Felix by Bertram Thomas includes modern photos to accompany his own photos. A new introduction...  Read More >>

Halliburton's Complete Book of Marvels is replete with historical facts, maps, and photos illuminating a thrilling...  Read More >>

In the early and mid-nineteenth century, travelers from Mexico, Germany, and the United States wrote vivid accounts...  Read More >>

A bite-sized guide full of trivia, facts and quotes to help cure even the most serious cases of itchy feet.  Read More >>

A travel writing classic, available for the first time in 20 years.The inspiration behind the Sunday Times bestseller...  Read More >>

A travel writing classic, available for the first time in 20 years. The inspiration behind the Sunday Times bestseller...  Read More >>

Halliburton's Complete Book of Marvels is replete with historical facts, maps, and photos illuminating a thrilling...  Read More >>

A memoir narrating a journey through Kaokoveld, Namibia, in an old Land Rover Defender. An architect and her medical...  Read More >>

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The...  Read More >>

Mark Twain's humorously chronicles his voyage through Europe with a group of American travelers in 1867. It was...  Read More >>

Shows that overseas Meiji-period travel writers struck out to create a dynamic new type of travel literature, one...  Read More >>

Hannah Snell's story begins in 1744, with tragedy. That year, she married James Summs, a Dutch seaman. Soon after...  Read More >>

Based on letters Twain wrote from Europe to newspapers in San Francisco and New York as a roving correspondent,...  Read More >>

Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that…  Read More >>