Classic Travel Writing

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...

Lewen Weldon was mapping the eastern desert of Egypt when World War I broke out. A fluent Arabic speaker, he was recruited to run a network of spie...

A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and h...

HOW THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL BETWEEN THE WARS TRANSFORMED WOMEN'S LIVES ACROSS ALL CLASSES - A VIVID CROSS SECTION OF LIFE ON-BOARD T...

Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift fro...

The novelist E. M. Forster opens the door on life in a remote Maharajah's court in the early twentieth century, a 'record of a vanished civilizatio...

A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travelsmost of them, aside from his journey to America, barely kn...

This is the most important of my books, and the one by which I most hope to be remembered! Amelia B Edwards, 1877. A chance visit to Egypt in 1873...

A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and h...