Report to Hon. A. V. Brown, Postmaster-General: on the opening and present condition of the United States overland mail route between San Antonio, Texas, and San Diego, California

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…