Travel Writing

Intimate China: The Chinese as I Have Seen Them

Mrs. Archibald Little

A Book of the Pyrenees

S. Baring-Gould

This work is a scholarly survey of the Pyrenees that blends geography, natural history, and cultural…

The Gourmet's Guide to London

Lieut.-Col. Newnham-Davis

Lieutenant‑Colonel Nathaniel Newnham‑Davis’s The Gourmet’s Guide to London is a practical guidebook rather…

Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires

Harry Alverson Franck

Harry Alverson Franck’s work is a travel narrative that chronicles a four‑year, foot‑borne trek from Panama…

Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820 Resumed and Completed, by the Discovery of its Origin in Itasca Lake, in 1832

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The work is a scholarly travel narrative that assembles the author’s own journals with the notes of his…

The New North

Agnes Deans Cameron

The New North is a travelogue‑memoir that charts Agnes Deans Cameron’s ambitious trek from Chicago through…

How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical And Statistical Information

Francis Hervé

The work is a 19th‑century guide‑book that doubles as a social commentary on travel to Paris in 1842.

The Critic in the Orient

George Hamlin Fitch

Pictures from Italy

Charles Dickens

The work is a travel‑memoir in which Charles Dickens, best known for his novels, records a year‑long stay in…

The Crest of the Continent: A Summer's Ramble in the Rocky Mountains and Beyond

Ernest Ingersoll

Ernest Ingersoll’s The Crest of the Continent is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a summer…

The end of the trail: The far west from New Mexico to British Columbia

E. Alexander Powell

The work is a sweeping travel‑essay that blends historical overview with first‑hand observation of the “Last…

Among Congo cannibals

John H. Weeks

John H. Weeks presents a first‑hand ethnographic record of his three decades among the Boloki (also called…

The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song

John Oliver Wardrop

The book is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that sets out to acquaint English‑speaking readers with the…

Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

Hugh Macmillan

The work is a scholarly miscellany on Rome and its environs, assembled from previously published articles…

A Cotswold Village; Or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire

J. Arthur Gibbs

Joseph Arthur Gibbs’s A Cotswold Village is a leisurely survey of rural Gloucestershire, framed as a series…

The pillars of Hercules: or, A narrative of travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848; Vol. 2

David Urquhart

David Urquhart’s second volume of The Pillars of Hercules is a first‑hand travelogue that records his 1848…

Modern India

William Eleroy Curtis

The work is a travelogue that opens with a vivid, almost theatrical portrait of a steamship bound for Bombay,…

In Morocco

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton’s In Morocco is a travel memoir that records a single, hurried tour of the country in the…

Wandering in Northern China

The book is a loosely organized travelogue that records the author’s wandering impressions of the regions of…

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 With Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales

T. L. Mitchell

Thomas Livingstone Mitchell’s Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 is a…

Steep Trails

John Muir

Steep Trails gathers a selection of John Muir’s letters and articles spanning twenty‑nine years of his life,…

The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel Comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers.

Thomas H. Prescott

The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel is an ambitious reference work that seeks to…

Aspects of nature, in different lands and different climates (Vol. 1 of 2) with scientific elucidations

Alexander von Humboldt

The work is a scientific travelogue that blends vivid description with rigorous annotation.

Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia, Zamora, Avila & Zaragoza An Historical & Descriptive Account

Albert Frederick Calvert

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel‑historical survey of six Spanish cities, Valladolid, Oviedo, Segovia,…