The monastery of Petschenga: Sketches of Russian Lapland (from historical and legendary sources)

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

T. Smollett

The work is an epistolary comedy that opens with a series of letters written by a nameless narrator to…

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” is a first‑hand travel memoir that plunges the reader into the gritty…

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846

James Richardson

James Richardson’s work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that records his 1845‑46 expedition across…

The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule

Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

John Foreman’s work is a sweeping survey of the Philippines under three centuries of Spanish rule, presented…

In the forbidden land: an account of a journey into Tibet, capture by the Tibetan lamas and soldiers, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release

Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Arnold Henry Savage Landor’s In the Forbidden Land is a travel memoir that records his arduous trek from the…

Roughing It

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s Roughing It is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a series of episodic adventures across…