Travel Writing

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

Faxian

The work is a scholarly edition of the 5th‑century Chinese pilgrim’s own account of his journeys through…

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella L. Bird’s Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 offers a travelogue rather than a systematic…

How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe.

Thomas Wallace Knox

Thomas Wallace Knox’s “How to Travel” presents itself as a practical handbook for the 19th‑century…

The Maine Woods The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 03 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The Maine Woods is a posthumously assembled travel narrative by Henry David Thoreau, drawn from his journal…

Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) The Turkish Provinces

H. F. B. Lynch

Harry Finnis Blosse Lynch’s Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2) is a first‑hand travelogue that records a…

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

Benjamin, of Tudela, active 12th century

The Discovery of Guiana

Walter Raleigh

The work is a first‑person account of Sir Walter Raleigh’s 1595 expedition to the “large, rich and beautiful…

Around the clock in Europe: A travel sequence

Charles Fish Howell

Around the clock in Europe is a travelogue that arranges twelve consecutive “happy hours” in a dozen cities,…

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland

G. F. Browne

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records the author’s explorations of natural ice‑caves in…

The Story of Rouen

Theodore Andrea Cook

The work is a scholarly travel‑history of Rouen, presented as a series of chronological chapters that…

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

M. B. Synge

A Book of Discovery is a sweeping historical survey that traces humanity’s urge to chart the unknown from…

Roughing It in the Bush

Susanna Moodie

The work is a first‑person account by Susanna Moodie, a nineteenth‑century pioneer who spent nineteen years…

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that begins with an expansive, almost encyclopedic sketch…

From John O'Groats to Land's End Or, 1372 miles on foot; A book of days and chronicle of adventures by two pedestrians on tour

Naylor, John Anderton; Naylor, Robert Anderton

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel chronicle in which the brothers John Anderton Naylor and Robert…

Seven years in South Africa, volume 1 (of 2): travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the diamond fields and the Zambesi (1872-79)

Emil Holub

Greatest wonders of the world, as seen and described by famous writers

The volume is a curated anthology that pairs celebrated writers with the natural marvels they described at…

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II

Richard Hakluyt

The volume is a segment of Richard Hakluyt’s monumental compilation of English seafaring narratives, the…

Italian Hours

Henry James

The work is a loosely assembled travelogue by Henry James, the late‑nineteenth‑century American novelist who…

Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car

M. F. Mansfield

Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car is a travelogue that blends guidebook detail with personal…

Glacier National Park [Montana]

United States. Department of the Interior

The work is an official guide produced by the United States Department of the Interior that combines park…

Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2

Dawson Turner

The work is an antiquarian travelogue that sets out to catalogue the historic churches and monastic sites of…

Somerset

Wade, G. W. (George Woosung); Wade, J. H.

This work is a practical guide to the county of Somerset, written by the brothers G. W. Wade and J. H. Wade.

Excursions, and Poems The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 05 (of 20)

Henry David Thoreau

The volume gathers a varied assortment of Thoreau’s shorter prose and poetry, beginning with the travel essay…

Among Cannibals: An Account of Four Years' Travels in Australia and of Camp Life With the Aborigines of Queensland

Carl Lumholtz

Carl Lumholtz’s work is a first‑hand ethnographic and natural‑history report of four years spent traversing…