Classic Travel Writing

The British surrealist painter and writer Ithell Colquhoun recalls episodes from her travels in Ireland as a young woman turning her back on the mo...

Frances Trollopes Domestic Manners of the Americans, complemented by Auguste Hervieus satiric illustrations, took the transatlantic world by storm ...

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning is the moving follow-up to Laurie Lee's acclaimed Cider with RosieAbandoning the Cotswolds village that raise...

A 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...

Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was renowned as America's first 'girl stunt reporter'. She was a pioneer of investigative journalism, inclu...

In 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...

A facsimile edition of Bradshaws Canals and Navigable Rivers of England and Wales. In the Victorian era, the name Bradshaw became synonymous with ...

First quality reprint of this famous travelogue. Relevant for anybody interested in Asia travels and colored plate books of the 19th century We wer...