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Die Harzreise
Heinrich Heine
Die „Harzreise“ ist ein poetisch‑geprägter Reisebericht des 19.
ReadThe heart of Africa, Vol. 1 (of 2)
Georg August Schweinfurth
The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that blends geography, natural history and ethnography as Georg…
The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I
Charles Lever
The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I is a self‑conscious work of fiction that frames its narrative as a series of…
ReadThe Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book
William Makepeace Thackeray
ReadAbroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street
Julian Street
Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
The work is a Victorian travel memoir by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, an Englishwoman who spent several years in…
ReadA Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany is a…
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
Robert Kerr
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16, is a sprawling eighteenth‑century…
Across China on Foot
Edwin John Dingle
The book is a first‑person travel narrative in which journalist Edwin J.
Diary in America, Series One
Frederick Marryat
Frederick Marryat’s Diary in America is a first‑person travel narrative that sets out to correct what he sees…
ReadAndré Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.
Michaux, André; Harris, Thaddeus Mason; Michaux, François André
This volume gathers three early‑American travel narratives, André Michaux’s Kentucky journal (1793‑96),…
ReadIn Barbary: Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and the Sahara
E. Alexander Powell
This work is a travel‑history of the French‑controlled North‑African lands that were once called Barbary.
ReadThe New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery
John R. Wise
John R. Wise’s “The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery” is a nineteenth‑century topographical study that…
ReadTo The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir; Cameron, Verney Lovett
The work is a two‑volume travel memoir by Sir Richard Francis Burton and Verney Lovett Cameron, chronicling…
ReadCongo life and folklore
John H. Weeks
John H. Weeks’s work is a blend of ethnographic observation and missionary narrative that treats the brass…
ReadThe Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia Thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &c. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von
The work is a travel memoir presented as a series of letters from the German nobleman Charles‑Lewis, Baron de…
The Naples Riviera
Herbert M. Vaughan
The work is a travel‑essay on Naples and its surrounding coast, written by Herbert M.
The Mirror of the Sea
Joseph Conrad
The work is a reflective travel narrative that treats the sea as a laboratory of ritual rather than a…
ReadTravels into North America, Volume 2 (of 3)
Pehr Kalm
Pehr Kalm’s Travels into North America, Volume 2, continues the Swedish naturalist’s detailed survey of the…
ReadUnbeaten Tracks in Japan
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella L. Bird’s Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is a travel narrative rather than a conventional guidebook.
ReadDawn in darkest Africa
John H. Harris
The work is a lengthy, polemical study of European involvement in West‑African territories, written by John…
Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 1 (of 2)
Sven Anders Hedin
The work is a first‑hand account of Sven Anders Hedin’s 1909 expedition across the Trans‑Himalayan plateau,…
ReadThree Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc.
Robert Fortune
ReadFlagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 2; and De Smet's Letters and Sketches, 1841-1842
Flagg, Edmund; Smet, Pierre-Jean de
The volume is a two‑part compilation that blends travelogue, natural history, and missionary narrative.