Travel Writing

Early Travels in Palestine Comprising the Narratives of Arculf, Willibald, Bernard, Sæwulf, Sigurd, Benjamin of Tudela, Sir John Maundeville, de la Brocquière, and Maundrell

This volume gathers a series of medieval pilgrimage accounts that chronicle the Holy Land from the…

Syria, the Desert & the Sown

Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Gertrude Lowthian Bell’s Syria, the Desert & the Sown is a travelogue that intertwines personal observation…

A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume II…

Around the Black Sea Asia Minor, Armenia, Caucasus, Circassia, Daghestan, the Crimea, Roumania

William Eleroy Curtis

Spanish Highways and Byways

Katharine Lee Bates

Spanish Highways and Byways is a travel‑essay collection that sets out to record the author’s impressions of…

The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The volume is a detailed geographical and ethnographic survey of the central African lake region, written by…

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore With chapters on coffee planting in Coorg, the Mysore representative assembly, the Indian congress, caste and the Indian silver question, being the 38 years' experiences of a Mysore planter

Robert H. Elliot

Robert H. Elliot’s Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore is a sprawling memoir that blends agricultural…

Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations

John H. Dixon

John H. Dixon’s “Gairloch in North‑West Ross‑Shire” is a comprehensive local history that blends records,…

To Mesopotamia and Kurdistan in disguise: with historical notices of the Kurdish tribes and the Chaldeans of Kurdistan

Ely Banister Soane

Ely Banister Soane’s work is a sprawling travel‑and‑history narrative that weaves personal observation with…

Siwa: the oasis of Jupiter Ammon

Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave

The work is a memoir‑like study by a British officer who spent two years in the remote Siwa Oasis during the…

The Story of Siena and San Gimignano

Edmund G. Gardner

The work is a scholarly survey of the art, architecture, and political history of two of Tuscany’s most…

Heroic Spain

Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Elizabeth Boyle O’Reilly’s Heroic Spain is a travelogue that blends practical advice with vivid observation.

The Mediterranean: Its Storied Cities and Venerable Ruins

Bonney, T. G. (Thomas George); Allen, Grant; Griffiths, Arthur; Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A. (Eustace Alfred); Traill, H. D.

The work is a travel‑essay that sets out from the western edge of the Mediterranean, using the dramatic…

Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton

Sir John Barrow

Sir John Barrow’s Travels in China is a sprawling travelogue that records the author’s observations during a…

The Uncommercial Traveller

Charles Dickens

The Uncommercial Traveller is a Victorian travelogue that blends observation with social commentary,…

Through East Anglia in a Motor Car

James Edmund Vincent

Vincent’s work is a practical guide for early motorists travelling through Norfolk and Suffolk, offering a…

Picturesque Germany First Series

Anonymous

Picturesque Germany First Series is a visual compendium that celebrates the nation’s architectural and…

The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton, volume 2 (of 2) By His Wife, Isabel Burton

Lady Isabel Burton

The work is a biographical memoir of the explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton, written by his wife Isabel…

Two Years in the French West Indies

Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn’s Two Years in the French West Indies is a travel memoir anchored in his 1887 arrival at…

Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. Volume I. Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830

Fitzroy, Robert; King, Philip Parker

The work is a formal naval report of the first surveying expedition undertaken by His Majesty’s ships…

The South American Tour

Annie S. Peck

The South American Tour is a practical guide‑book written by Annie S.

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 2 (of 5): being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855

Heinrich Barth

Heinrich Barth’s second volume of Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa is a meticulous field…

Unexplored Spain

Chapman, Abel; Buck, Walter John

Unexplored Spain is a richly illustrated natural‑history and travel work that blends description, hunting…

The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence

Benson John Lossing

Benson John Lossing’s The Pictorial Field‑Book of the Revolution is a hybrid of travelogue, illustrated…