Classic Travel Writing
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Florence: A Traveller''s Reader
Edward ChaneyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'The best conceivable guide to the city' - an essential cultural history for all visitors of FlorenceThe rich and glorious past of one of the best ...
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The Zodiac Arch
Freya StarkCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99With such tantalising chapters as In Defence of Smuggling and Lunch with Homer this is a witty, eye-opening tapestry of Freya Stark's writings on t...
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The Essential Lewis & Clark
Meriwether LewisCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The celebrated journals of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated in...
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English Journey
J. B. PriestleyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99In 1934, JB Priestley published an account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, t...
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A Company Man: The Remarkable French-Atlantic Voyage of a Clerk for the Company of the Indies [HC]
Historic New Orleans CollectionU.S.Current price €22.53Original price €26.50Current price €22.53Original price €26.50Save 15% -
Voisines et Rivales
Louis-Sebastien MercierCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50Written in the eighteenth century by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, this seminal work of travel writing was too Anglophile for French readers of the time...
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Magick City: Travellers to Rome from the Middle Ages to 1900, Volume III: The Nineteenth Century
Ronald RidleyCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Ronalds detailed and thoroughly enjoyable collection shows how it can take a visitor to appreciate what the residents are so used to, they take for...
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Bradshaw''s Handbook to London
George BradshawCurrent price €14.62Original price €18.50A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's wonderfully illustrated guide to Victorian London, dating from 1862. Bradshaws guide to London was published in...
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The Book of Marvels and Travels
John MandevilleCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99'Another island in the Great Ocean has many sinful and malevolent women, who have precious gems in their eyes.' In his Book of Marvels and Travels...
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A Time from the World
Jay GriffithsCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Rowena Farre led a double life while studying art in London as a young woman. For months on end she would disappear to Scotland or the English-Wels...
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Neighbours and Rivals: Paris and London
Louis-Sebastien MercierCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Mercier first travelled to London, and began recording his impressions, in 1780. A leading exemplar of a new form of literature, with a journalisti...
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Women Adventurers, 1750-1900: A Biographical Dictionary, with Excerpts from Selected Travel Writings
Mary F. McVickerCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been little comprehensive ref...
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The Crying of the Wind: Ireland
Ithell ColquhounCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun recalls episodes from her travels in Ireland as a young woman turning her back on the mo...
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Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)
Frances TrollopeCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Frances Trollopes Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieus satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm ...
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As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Laurie LeeCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raise...
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Crab''s Odyssey: Malta to Istanbul in an Open Boat
Penny MinneyCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50Current price €14.53Original price €17.50Save 17% -
The Obama Tribe Explorer: James Martin''s Biography
Mark PullicinoCurrent price €19.54Original price €22.99Current price €19.54Original price €22.99Save 15% -
The Travels
Marco PoloCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the east.Marco Polo w...
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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days: And Other Writings
Nellie BlyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, inclu...
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Encircle Africa
Ian PackhamCurrent price €12.79Original price €15.99In this solo 25,000 mile by-any-means journey through 31 countries Ian travels through Africa at its most raw and real. Attempting to complete the...
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Bradshaws Canals and Navigable Rivers: of England and Wales
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99A facsimile edition of Bradshaws Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales. In the Victorian era, the name Bradshaw became synonymous with ...
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Travels in Ladak, Tartary and Kashmir
Lieut. Colonel Henry TorrensCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99First quality reprint of this famous travelogue. Relevant for anybody interested in Asia travels and colored plate books of the 19th century We wer...
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