Classic travel writing books

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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were...  Read More >>

Following Twain's travels to central and southern Europe. The fourth of six such travel books written by Twain,...  Read More >>

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Tropical waters turn tumultuous in this travel memoir, as a free-spirited woman jumps headfirst into a sailing adventure...  Read More >>

A travelogue of a 19-year-old's journey home from Thailand to the UK without the aid of the internet, a mobile phone...  Read More >>

"""Write what you know"" is Maria Augustus-Dunn's mantra. With this in mind, she wrote her first book Married Quarter...  Read More >>