Classic Travel Writing

Washington, D.C. Then and Now presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution and history of America's capital city, from the dawn of...

Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of huge academic and popular interest in the last few years. Here, A...

First published in 1939, Language Hunting in the Karakoram describes the journey taken by the author to the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, a...

On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate Travel Writing initiates a comparative study of non-European travel writers in the eastern Islamic or Pe...

Worlds of Knowledge in Womens Travel Writing rediscovers the works of a wide range of authors from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. A stowa...

Come with us on lifes journey, as we travel through Europe from the Isle of Dogs and on to the Great Silk Road and back. On foot, by plane, on a ho...

With diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts, this is an exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating j...

Jan Jacob Slauerhoff (1898-1936) was a ship's doctor serving in south-east Asia, and is one of the most important twentieth-century Dutch-language ...

In A Long Way South, itinerant traveller Sara Stewart relates memories salvaged from her explorations of Latin America during 1974/5, a turbulent, ...

'Magnificent . . . The prose has the glorious turbulence and boil of the first two books, and the youthful magic of his 'dream-odyssey' ROBERT MACF...

In this journey of discovery, John Micklewright travels the slow way, on foot, on paths, tracks and byways from the Channel to the Alps from the c...