Travel Writing

The Land of Little Rain

Mary Austin

The work is a sprawling travel‑nature essay that treats California’s varied landscapes as a single, almost…

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 3. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

Jules Verne

Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 1

Dawson Turner

This work is a travelogue that records three summer tours of Normandy in the years 1815, 1818 and 1819, with…

The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427

Johannes Schiltberger

This work is a scholarly edition of Johann Schiltberger’s own account of his wanderings from 1396 to 1427, a…

The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea

Robert Wood Williamson

The book is a detailed ethnographic report on the Mafulu people of British New Guinea, assembled from the…

A Woman's Impression of the Philippines

Mary H. Fee

The work is a first‑person travel narrative that begins with the author’s embarkation aboard the army…

The Pedestrian's Guide through North Wales A tour performed in 1837

G. J. Bennett

The work is a practical travel guide for a walking tour of North Wales, first published in 1837 by G. J.

Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America

Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

A Half Century Among the Siamese and the Lāo: An Autobiography

Daniel McGilvary

This work is an autobiographical account by Daniel McGilvary, a long‑serving Presbyterian missionary who…

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter

Edric Holmes

The book is a comprehensive travel‑and‑history guide to the southern kingdom of Wessex, tracing its landscape…

Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823

Lady Maria Callcott

The work is a first‑person travel journal by Lady Maria Callcott, written during her three‑year stay in…

Sahara

Angus Buchanan

The work is a mixed travel‑nature narrative by Captain Angus Buchanan, a seasoned explorer and biologist who…

The New Jerusalem

G. K. Chesterton

The New Jerusalem is a sprawling, notebook‑style essay in which G. K.

A Wanderer in Venice

E. V. Lucas

The book is a richly illustrated travel guide that blends historical overview with a personal itinerary…

Yachting, Vol. 1

Sullivan, Edward, Sir; Brassey, Thomas Brassey, Earl; Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor); Seth-Smith, C. E.; Watson. G. L.

The work is a comprehensive reference on yachting, the first volume of a multi‑part series that treats…

Los gringos; or, An inside view of Mexico and California: with wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia

H. A. Wise

The work is a sprawling nineteenth‑century travel memoir by Henry Augustus Wise, catalogued under California,…

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan

Frederic Courtland Penfield

Frederic C. Penfield’s East of Suez is a travel‑essay collection that blends personal observation with a…

Cathedral Cities of Italy

W. W. Collins

The book is a richly illustrated survey of Italy’s cathedral cities, written by the architectural historian…

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868

David Livingstone

The work is a posthumous compilation of David Livingstone’s own field notes taken during his final African…

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a comic, self‑reflective travel narrative…

Peru: A Land of Contrast

Millicent Todd Bingham

Millicent Todd Bingham’s work is a scholarly travelogue that treats Peru as a study in opposites.

The Old Inns of Old England, Volume 1 (of 2) A Picturesque Account of the Ancient and Storied Hostelries of Our Own Country

Charles G. Harper

The work is a scholarly survey of England’s historic public houses, presented as the first volume of a…

Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899: a narrative of the voyage of the "Belgica" among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the south pole

Frederick Albert Cook

Frederick A. Cook’s account is a first‑hand narrative of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897‑99, the…

Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Richard Francis Burton’s “Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol.