Travel Writing

A narrative of travels in northern Africa in the years 1818, 19, and 20; accompanied by geographical notices of Soudan and of the course of the Niger

G. F. Lyon

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that records a British naval officer’s expedition across the…

Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Mary Wollstonecraft

The work is a collection of Mary Wollstonecraft’s letters written during a brief, turbulent stay in Sweden…

Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell’s Canyons of the Colorado is a first‑hand scientific report of the 1869‑1872 surveys of…

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

Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s third volume of A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and…

Audubon and His Journals, Volume 2

John James Audubon

A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months

Annie Brassey

An account of a single‑year circumnavigation, this work records the eleven‑month voyage of the yacht Sunbeam…

Amours d'Extrême-Orient Illustrations d'après nature par Amédée Vignola

Olivier Diraison-Seylor

Ce volume, signé Olivier Diraison‑Seylor, se présente comme une réflexion esthétique et hygiénique sur la…

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia — Vol. 2 Performed between the years 1818 and 1822

Philip Parker King

The work is a detailed account of Lieutenant‑Commander Philip Parker King’s fourth surveying expedition along…

The face of China: Travels in east, north, central and western China

E. G. Kemp

The work is a travelogue that records the author’s observations of China over two distinct periods: a year in…

In Indian Mexico (1908)

Frederick Starr

Frederick Starr’s In Indian Mexico is a travel‑ethnography that sets out to chart a region of Mexico largely…

Rural Rides

William Cobbett

Rural Rides is a series of observational sketches that blend travelogue with social commentary, focused on…

The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s “The Land of Midian (Revisited)” is a scholarly travelogue that builds on his…

Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire. A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive.

James Croston

James Croston’s Nooks and Corners of Lancashire and Cheshire presents itself as a leisurely travelogue that…

Normandy: The Scenery & Romance of Its Ancient Towns, Complete

Gordon Home

The volume is a travel‑and‑description work by Gordon Home that surveys the towns, countryside and historic…

The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia

F. Hamilton Jackson

The work is a scholarly travelogue that surveys the Austrian‑ruled coasts of the Adriatic, first the…

A history of the Brazil: Comprising Its Geography, Commerce, Colonization, Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c. &c. &c.

James Henderson

James Henderson’s work is a sprawling reference on Brazil as it existed up to 1822, organized province by…

Brittany & Its Byways

Mrs. Bury Palliser

Brittany & Its Byways is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that begins with a brisk six‑hour sail from Poole to…

A voyage to the South Sea: Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies

William Bligh

The work is a first‑person account of a Royal Navy expedition commissioned by King George III to transport…

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 13 America, Part II

Richard Hakluyt

The volume is a 17th‑century compilation of English voyages, and this section begins with a transcription…

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke’s “The Discovery of the Source of the Nile” is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles…

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Apsley Cherry‑Garrard’s account is a personal memoir of the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910‑1913),…

Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series

Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn’s Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a series of travel sketches that blend description, cultural…

The attaché at Peking

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale

The work is a series of letters by Algernon Baron Redesdale, a British diplomat who spent many years inside…

The Alhambra

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s “The Alhambra” is a hybrid of travelogue, historical sketch, and imaginative tale,…