Classic Travel Writing

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...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the ...

For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known...

During the Jim Crow era, African American travellers faced the prospects of violence, harassment, and the denial of services, especially as they ma...

The classic investigation - inspiration for a major HBO series - revealing the true horror of Europe's racist colonial past in Africa. Over a quar...

The Irish-American physicist, academic and traveller John Freely wrote more than sixty lively books on travel, history and science before he died i...

Few thought of travelling to the Alps until John Ruskin extolled their rugged beauty in 1842. More than anyone, it was 25-year-old Edward Whymper w...

While visiting Europe in 1844, Harry McCall of Philadelphia wrote to his cousin back home of his disappointment. He didn't mind Paris, but he prefe...

A century ago, northern Thailand (or Siam as it was then known) was home to small communities of Westerners, many of them British diplomats and for...

From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature. The book is a...