Classic Travel Writing

Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was revitalised by his ...

'New York is an aquarium ... where there are nothing but hellbenders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks'In 1935 Henry Miller ...

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys, two of whom represented important Chri...

'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 ...

With 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...

The celebrated journals of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated in...

In 1934, JB Priestley published an account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, t...

Written in the eighteenth century by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, this seminal work of travel writing was too Anglophile for French readers of the time...

Ronalds detailed and thoroughly enjoyable collection shows how it can take a visitor to appreciate what the residents are so used to, they take for...

A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's wonderfully illustrated guide to Victorian London, dating from 1862. Bradshaws guide to London was published in...

'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...

Rowena 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...

Mercier first travelled to London, and began recording his impressions, in 1780. A leading exemplar of a new form of literature, with a journalisti...

The past quarter-century has seen a number of biographies and anthologies on women travelers but to date there has been little comprehensive ref...

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...