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...