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...