Travel Writing

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts

Rosalind Northcote

Rosalind Northcote’s work is a richly layered guide to Devon’s landscape, its ancient customs and its storied…

Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 1 (of 2)

Tyrone Power

Tyrone Power’s two‑volume work is a travelogue that records his observations of North America during the…

Letters of Asa Gray; Vol. 2

Asa Gray

This volume gathers a series of Asa Gray’s letters from the early 1860s, revealing the botanist’s candid…

Mexico and Its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited

Robert Anderson Wilson

The Cornwall Coast

Arthur L. Salmon

Arthur L. Salmon’s The Cornwall Coast is a practical guide for travelers who wish to explore the rugged…

In Château Land

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

In In Château Land Anne Hollingsworth Wharton offers a vivid travelogue that reads like a series of letters…

Southern Arabia

Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore); Bent, Theodore, Mrs.

The work is a travel‑record of the Bent couple’s 1889 expedition to the southern Arabian coast and the…

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses

Frederic S. Cozzens

Frederic S. Cozzens presents a hybrid of travelogue, historical sketch and personal memoir, centered on Nova…

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall’s “A Wayfarer in China” is a travel memoir that chronicles a single, extended…

Dikes and Ditches; Or, Young America in Holland and Belgium

Oliver Optic

The work is a juvenile adventure set within the “Young America Abroad” series, chronicling the voyages of the…

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

Jasper Danckaerts

The volume presents the 1679‑1680 journal of Jasper Danckaerts, a Dutch‑born Labadist envoy, together with…

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Polo, Marco; Rusticiano, da Pisa

The second volume of The Travels of Marco Polo continues the Venetian explorer’s extensive record of the…

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition

William A. Ross

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records a yachting expedition from Greenwich to the…

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1

Elise Whitlock Rose

The work is a travel‑and‑architecture guide that surveys the great cathedrals and cloisters of southern…

A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

John Mason Peck

John Mason Peck’s “A New Guide for Emigrants to the West” is a practical reference work aimed at those who…

A Woman who went to Alaska

May Kellogg Sullivan

The work is a first‑person memoir that chronicles a woman’s eighteen‑month sojourn among the roughest mining…

Abrégé de l'Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome 2)

Jean-François de La Harpe

Ce volume, rédigé par Jean‑François de La Harpe, fait partie de son « Abrégé de l’Histoire Générale des…

Terveeks' — Buddha!

Sulo-Weikko Pekkola

Terveeks', Buddha! on Sulo‑Weikko Pekkolan matkakertomus, joka kuljettaa lukijan läpi laivanmatkojen, Intian…

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route

Florence Kimball Russel

Florence Kimball Russell’s work is a travel memoir that doubles as a chronicle of a 1900‑1901 cable‑laying…

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad is a sprawling travel narrative that blends observation, satire, and…

The Land of the Long Night

Paul B. Du Chaillu

The work is a youthful travel narrative by the explorer‑author Paul Du Chaillu, who frames his account as a…

An African Adventure

Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Isaac Frederick Marcosson’s An African Adventure is a travelogue that doubles as a contemporary political…

Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2)

Tyrone Power

The work is a travelogue that blends observation, anecdote, and occasional satire, chronicling a series of…

The Life of Sir Richard Burton

Thomas Wright

Thomas Wright’s work is a corrective biography of Sir Richard Francis Burton, the Victorian explorer,…