Classic Travel Writing

Within 'Sirens and Seriemas', Paul Brooke explores the wild places of Brazil through photography and poetry. A former biologist and naturalist, Bro...

A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newbys iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautif...

Joshsua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of 14 and for the next 35 years he sailed the world holdin...

As a first-time visitor to London, De Amicis was awestruck by the bustle and magnificence of the Victorian metropolis and wrote a number of sketche...

This book is described as being 'in a genre all its own'. Truly it is. Simeon the cat has two ambitions. the first is to become famous, which is ...

In the autumn of 1915, in a slightly heroic mood, E.M. Forster arrived in Alexandria, full of lofty ideals as a volunteer for the Red Cross. Yet mo...

Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is th...

Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhals travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities such as Bordeaux, Toul...

The 12th Egypt and Austria conference (Zagreb, 1722 September 2018) was organised by the Egypt and Austria Society and the Faculty of the Croatian ...

Pictures from Italy is one of Charles Dickens' earlier works, a fantastic and whimsical foray into the twin worlds of travel and the imagination. W...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of Napoleons armies, ...

The small island archipelago of St Kilda, which rises majestically from the stormy waters of the North Atlantic, has a magic and allure which is bo...

Sam''s girlfriend Birgit is no longer a novice motorcyclist - riding through southern Africa and South America turned her into a rider capable of f...

In July 1789 George Cadogan Morgan, born in Bridgend, Wales, and the nephew of the celebrated radical dissenter Richard Price (1723-91), found hims...

Edith Durham is best known for her classic travel books about the Balkans. However, she was also a passionate, articulate and well-informed comment...

Lord Byron completed his Grand Tour of the Mediterranean between 1809 and 1811, leaving England at the age of twenty-one as an undiscovered soul an...

'German military figures had a certain terrifying glamour,' wrote Patrick Leigh Fermor, recalling views about Germany during the First World War. W...

The third of George Millar''s masterful sailing and travel narratives to be republished many decades after their original appearance. On the face o...

One of the non-fiction books of the year. Andrew O Hagan A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world o...

Paul Bowles began travelling the moment he could - leaving America as a teenager to visit Gertrude Stein in Paris. He settled in Morocco after the ...

V. S. Naipauls first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest his birthplace....

Elderly British men display a variety of annoying habits. They write letters to the newspapers; they drink too much; they reminisce about the old d...

Travel was a way of life for the Austrian poet and novelist Rainer Maria Rilke, and it was integral to his work. Between 1897 and 1920 he visited V...

'Mirrorlands' is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the worlds largest and most populous countries. Charti...

Weaving the myths of the Sirens into the landscape and history of the island of Capri, Siren Land focuses on the legends and archaeology, folklore ...