Classic Travel Writing

This book places Bird's visit to Japan in the context of her worldwide life of travel and gives an introduction to the woman herself. Supported by ...

This work examines travellers accounts of their journeys to Cyrenaica, focusing in the main on an analysis of these accounts within the context of ...

Long distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. This collection of papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter demonstrates th...

The classic and gorgeous accounts of two legendary naturalists journeys through summer and winter in the north countryin two new stand-alone paperb...

In 1973, the Afghans still had a King who ruled from a palace in Kabul with his own resident court of musicians when Veronica set up home in Herat....

First published in 1997, it would be hard to find a publisher today for a white, male expatriate writing about the realities of life in a Jamaican ...

A Year in Jamaica is a complex memoir telling the story of two simultaneous journeys: Diana Lewes' 1889 trip from England to visit her family's sug...

In 1924, the eminent Thai historian and administrator, Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, journeyed to Angkor Wat with his three daughters and the French h...

Unique and nostalgic, this record explores the particularities of the Shell Guides and examines them in a cultural context. From their inception in...

This book delves into Einstein's fascinating, although lesser-known, journey to Malaya in 1922 and 1923. During a trip to Japan at the end of 1922,...

His second major venture into non fiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africais Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a mon...

A Scotsmans guide to the extraordinary tapestry of the land, history, folklore and stories of his homeland. From...

An edited collection with contributions by leading scholars and writers brought together by a prize-winning author who has edited the text and cont...

Every place is a product of the stories we tell about itstories that do not merely describe but in fact shape geographic, social, and cultural spac...

It is widely believed that people living in the Middle Ages seldom traveled. But, as Medieval Travel and Travelers reveals, many medieval people a...

For many Evangelical Christians, a trip to the Holy Land is an integral part of practicing their faith. Arriving in groups, most of these pilgrims ...

First English translation of La Galilée, an account of Pierre Loti's travels in the Holy Land from Jerusalem to Beirut, via Damascus and many other...

Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoug...

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar's Five Cities was first published in Turkish as Be ehir in 1946 and revised in 1960. It consists of five essays, each focused ...

Taking the Risk is Hilary Bradt's engaging, insightful, amusing and sometimes alarming memoir about serendipitous adventures in travel and publishi...

Hannah Snell's story begins with tragedy. In 1744 she married James Summs, a Dutch seaman. Soon after their marriage she fell pregnant, and Summs a...