Classic Travel Writing
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Travels of Fah Hian and Sung Yun: Buddhist Pilgrims from China to India AD400 to AD518
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The Globetrotter: Victorian Excursions in India, China and Japan
Amy MillerCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99In the mid-nineteenth century, as new routes opened up, a new generation of travellers embarked on excursions to India, China and Japan. Globetrott...
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The Colossus of Maroussi
Henry MillerCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Like the ancient colossus that stood over the harbor of Rhodes, Henry Millers The Colossus of Maroussi stands as a seminal classic in travel litera...
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Twilight in Italy
D. H. LawrenceCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50D.H. Lawrence's first travel book and an important insight into the roots of his literary genius. In 1912, a young D.H. Lawrence left England for ...
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The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 17151747: A Sojourner in the French Atlantic
The University of North Carolina PressCurrent price €67.14Original price €78.99In 1719, Jean-Francois-Benjamin Dumont de Montigny, son of a Paris lawyer, set sail for Louisiana with a commission as a lieutenant after a year in...
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Exploration Fawcett
Col. Percy FawcettCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion picture The Lost City of Z.The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Gro...
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Travels in Scotland, 1788-1881: A Selection from Contemporary Tourist Journals
Alastair J. DurieCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Current price €29.25Original price €32.50Save 10% -
Winter Notes on Summer Impressions: New Translation
Fyodor DostoevskyCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99In June 1862, Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about ...
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Going to Extremes: The Adventurous Life of Harry de Windt
Stephen WadeCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Harry de Windt (1856-1933) was a man who, by any standards, was a personality, a marked presence in the world of Victorian and Edwardian literature...
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Two Mountains and a River Paperback: I Made a Resolve Not to Begin Climbing Until Assured by a Plague of Flies That Summer Had Really Come
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A Visit to America
A.G. MacdonellCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50In 1934, at the peak of the Great Depression, A. G. Macdonell embarked on a journey across America. This travelogue is the deliciously scathing pro...
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far North
Ibn FadlanCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River. In his subseq...
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To The Hebrides: Samuel Johnson''s Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell''s Journal of a Tour
James BoswellCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Samuel Johnsons Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswells Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides are widely regarded as among the be...
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland''s History-Making Race Around the World
Matthew GoodmanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
On Foot Through Clydesdale
Iain C. LeesCurrent price €12.79Original price €15.99First published in 1932, Iain C. Lees''s book On Foot through Clydesdale is a fascinating and delightful introduction to the history, folklore, tra...
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An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
The American University in Cairo PressCurrent price €15.29Original price €17.99Founded by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago, Alexandria has belonged both to the Mediterranean and to Egypt, a luxuriant out-planting of Eu...
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Constantinople
Edmondo de AmicisCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as th...
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Mischief in Greenland: Only a Man in the Devil of a Hurry Would Wish to Fly to His Mountains
H.W. TilmanCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Current price €15.73Original price €18.50Save 15% -
South!
Sir Ernest Henry ShackletonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. So...
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A Long Walk with Lord Conway: An Exploration of the Alps and an English Adventurer
Simon ThompsonCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99In 1894, Martin Conway became the first man to walk the Alps 'from end to end' when he completed a 1,000-mile journey from the Col de Tende in Ital...
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Voyage to Lisbon, Legal Papers, and Poems
Henry FieldingCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99The Voyage to Lisbon is Fielding's last work, a piece of travel writing depicting his journey, for his health, to the place where he died. The othe...
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