Travel Writing

Castles and Chateaux of Old Navarre and the Basque Provinces

M. F. Mansfield

This volume is a richly illustrated travel‑guide and historical survey of the former French provinces of…

Byeways in Palestine

James Finn

Byeways in Palestine is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that blends geographic description with biblical…

After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819

William Edward Frye

The book is a post‑Napoleonic travel memoir written by Major William Edward Frye, a former British infantry…

Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life

Thomas Wallace Knox

Thomas W. Knox’s Overland Through Asia is a travelogue that blends personal adventure with a…

The Arctic World: Its plants, animals, and natural phenomena. With a historical sketch of Arctic discovery, down to the British polar expedition: 1875-76.

Anonymous

The work presents a sweeping survey of the Arctic’s natural wonders and the history of its exploration,…

Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand

Ármin Vámbéry

Ármin Vámbéry’s Travels in Central Asia is a first‑person account of a mid‑nineteenth‑century expedition that…

The Charm of Ireland

Burton Egbert Stevenson

Burton Egbert Stevenson’s The Charm of Ireland is a travel‑memoir that opens with a vivid sea‑journey across…

Old Calabria

Norman Douglas

The book is a travel‑essay in which Norman Douglas, a British writer of the early twentieth‑century, records…

On an Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara

Samuel G. Bayne

Samuel G. Bayne’s work is a travelogue that charts a brief, whirlwind tour of Ireland’s northern, western,…

Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 2) With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing

George Catlin

George Catlin’s work is a sprawling illustrated travelogue that records his eight‑year odyssey among the…

The charm of Venice: An anthology

The book is an anthology that gathers together prose passages and poems celebrating Venice, assembled by A.

Japanese Plays and Playfellows

Osman Edwards

The work is a scholarly survey of Japanese theatrical culture, framed by the author’s brief six‑month…

Airopaidia: Containing the narrative of a balloon excursion from Chester, the eighth of September, 1785, taken from minutes made during the voyage; hints on the improvement of balloons ... To which is subjoined, mensuration of heights by the barometer, made plain; with extensive tables. The whole serving as an introduction to aërial navigation.

Thomas Baldwin

The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway

John O'Mahony

The work is a promotional guide to Ireland written in the late‑Victorian era, presenting the country as a…

Roaming Through the West Indies

Harry Alverson Franck

Harry A. Franck’s Roaming Through the West Indies is a travelogue that blends personal adventure with a…

Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)

Edward Stanley

White Shadows in the South Seas

Frederick O'Brien

Frederick O’Brien’s White Shadows in the South Seas is a travel memoir that chronicles a single year among…

Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876

Ernest Giles

The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2)

Martin, Benjamin Ellis; Martin, Charlotte M.

The work is a scholarly guide to the hidden stone‑by‑stone history of Paris, aimed at readers who want more…

In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 1 of 2)

Fridtjof Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen’s In Northern Mists is a scholarly survey of Arctic discovery that begins with a personal…

From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People

Sven Anders Hedin

A Traveler at Forty

Theodore Dreiser

The work is a semi‑autobiographical travel memoir by Theodore Dreiser, written as he prepares for his first…

The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania

E. Gerard

The work is a travel‑essay collection by Emily De Laszowska‑Gerard, assembled from a series of papers she…

The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes

Thomas Whiffen

Thomas Whiffen’s work is a first‑person ethnographic record of a two‑year sojourn (1908‑1909) in the upper…