Travel Writing

Your National Parks, with Detailed Information for Tourists

Mills, Enos A.; Schmeckebier, Laurence Frederick

This work is a sweeping guide to the United States and Canadian national parks, written by Enos A.

How I found Livingstone: Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone

Henry M. Stanley

The work is a first‑person travel narrative by Henry M. Stanley, written after his 1869 encounter with James…

The Spell of Switzerland

Nathan Haskell Dole

The Spell of Switzerland is a lyrical travelogue that masquerades as a work of fiction, though its author…

The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature

Alfred Russel Wallace

The work is a scientific travelogue that intertwines narrative with exhaustive natural‑history observation.

Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, Volume 2 (of 2): During four-and-twenty years in the east; With Revelations of Life in the Zenāna

Fanny Parkes Parlby

Fanny Parkes’s Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque is a sprawling travel diary that records…

French enterprise in Africa: the personal narrative of Lieut. Hourst of his exploration of the Niger

Hourst

The work is a first‑person account of Lieutenant Hour Hourst’s 1890s expedition along the Niger, presented as…

Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile: exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants, under the dominion of Mohammed Ali; and illustrating the antiquities, arts, and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe

G. A. Hoskins

This work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that combines meticulous antiquarian observation with a broad…

The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan

Wigram, W. A. (William Ainger); Wigram, Edgar Thomas Ainger

The Cradle of Mankind, Life in Eastern Kurdistan is a two‑volume travel‑history written jointly by the Rev.

Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921

Howard-Bury, Charles; Mallory, George; Wollaston, A. F. R.

The book is a formal report of the 1921 reconnaissance of Mount Everest, compiled by the Royal Geographical…

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2

Roald Amundsen

The work is a two‑volume narrative of Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian Antarctic expedition aboard the Fram,…

Ornithological biography, Vol. 4 (of 5): An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America

John James Audubon

The fourth volume of John James Audubon’s Ornithological Biography continues the author’s sweeping survey of…

Hertfordshire

Herbert W. Tompkins

The work is a county guide, written by Herbert W. Tompkins in 1903, that sets out to give a concise yet…

Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince.

Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

The work is a series of travel letters penned by a German prince during his tours of England, Ireland and…

Lake Ngami: or, Explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of southwestern Africa

Charles John Andersson

The work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travelogue that records two extensive expeditions across the…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 02

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume presents a series of sketches by Robert Louis Stevenson, written in 1879, that recount his…

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 2 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773

James Bruce

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner

Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders’s A Voyage to Terra Australis is a meticulous record of the three‑year exploration…

The Land of the Black Mountain: The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro

Wyon, Reginald; Prance, Gerald

Land without chimneys; or, the byways of Mexico

Alfred Oscar Coffin

Alfred Oscar Coffin’s Land without Chimneys; or, the Byways of Mexico is a sprawling travel‑essay that blends…

Thirty years in Madagascar

Thomas T. Matthews

Thomas T. Matthews offers a straightforward, memoir‑like account of three decades of missionary service in…

The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales

Cambrensis Giraldus

The work is a medieval travelogue that records Archbishop Baldwin’s journey through Wales, filtered through…

George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 3 (of 3)

George Eliot

This volume is the third of a three‑part collection of George Eliot’s letters and journals, gathering…

A Wanderer in Holland

E. V. Lucas

The work is a loosely organized travelogue that blends personal observation with a catalogue of Dutch art.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.

Thomas Forester

Thomas Forester’s work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that combines a personal narrative of his own…