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...