Classic Travel Writing

Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul an...

'German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour,' wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling views about Germany during the First World War. W...

The third of George Millar''s masterful sailing and travel narratives to be republished many decades after their original appearance. On the face o...

One of the non-fiction books of the year. Andrew O Hagan A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world o...

Paul Bowles began travelling the moment he could - leaving America as a teenager to visit Gertrude Stein in Paris. He settled in Morocco after the ...

V. S. Naipauls first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest his birthplace....

Elderly British men display a variety of annoying habits. They write letters to the newspapers; they drink too much; they reminisce about the old d...

Travel was a way of life for the Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke, and it was integral to his work. Between 1897 and 1920 he visited V...

'Mirrorlands' is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the worlds largest and most populous countries. Charti...

Weaving the myths of the Sirens into the landscape and history of the island of Capri, Siren Land focuses on the legends and archaeology, folklore ...