Classic Travel Writing

The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historic...

With fascinating extracts from his own writings, this book reveals the captivating travels and adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle - the creator of Sh...

The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-li...

With a new foreword by Tahir Shah, this book is one most captivating travel books of the 20th century. It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Hall...

A collection of the greatest women's travel writing selected by journalist and presenter Mariella Frostrup. From Constantinople to Crimea; from A...

'She has written the best travel books of her generation and her name will survive as an artist in prose.' - The Observer Written just after the S...

In 1851, Robert Macalister, a Scottish gentleman living in Ireland, took a journey back to his native homeland with the intention of reacquainting ...

One year after her successful trip across Glacier National Park with Howard Eaton, chronicled in Through Glacier Park, mystery novelist Mary Robert...

From Roughing it with the Men to Below the Border in Wartime Mary Roberts Rinehart's The Out Trail features seven tales from her adventures in the ...

The lure of the high places is in your blood.  The call of the mountains is a real call.  The veneer, after all, is so thin.  Throw off the impedim...

In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from ...

In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalym...

A remarkable account by a pioneering woman explorer who was described by Rudyard Kipling as 'the bravest woman of all my knowledge'.Until 1893, Mar...

In May 1935, 22-year-old Max Reisch and 19-year-old Helmuth Hahmann set out in a small motor car to find a land route from India to China. Their jo...

This book revisits the trajectory of one section of Patrick Leigh Fermors famous pedestrian excursion from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople. T...

'Full of heart.' Michael Harris, author of SolitudeBeing alone isn't something to endure - it's something to relish.________The average adult spend...

Gertrude Bell's fascinating account of a lifetime of travel and a lifelong enchantment of Persia. 'Are we the same, I wonder, when all our surroun...

Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times a...

Invention, passion, war and exile are but some of the elements in this revealing new insight into Paddy Leigh Fermor's many Romanian journeys. Sta...

Henrietta is a true original. Clever, vivacious and interested in everything, she managed to balance the demands of high profile public life with ...

When Dreams Collide is Nicholas Allan''s intimate pilgrimage across the former states of Yugoslavia. Shedding the received knowledge of headlines, ...

The lines, circles, ticks, hooks, dots and dashes of Pitman shorthand used by some postcard writers during the early twentieth century are obscure ...

'Oliver is an evocative storyteller, vividly bringing his tales to life' BBC HistoryFrom Genghis Khan's domination on earth to Armstrong's first st...

For nearly forty years John Wilson travelled the length and breadth of Scotland as a school inspector. From orkney to campbeltown and Jura to Dunde...

Mary Ashley Townsend was a novelist, newspaper columnist, and poet laureate of New Orleans who made several trips to Mexico with her daughter Cora ...

Isobel Wylie Hutchison was many things: a botanist, traveller, poet and artist. She travelled solo throughout the arctic collecting plant samples, ...