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ReadThe narrative of a journey undertaken in the years 1819, 1820 and 1821 through France, Italy, Savoy, Switzerland, parts of Germany bordering on the Rhine, Holland and the Netherlands: Comprising Incidents That Occurred to the Author, Who Has Long Suffered Under a Total Deprivation of Sight; With Various Points of Information Collected on His Tour
James Holman
James Holman’s work is a first‑person travel narrative that chronicles his three‑year continental tour from…
ReadThrough deserts and oases of central Asia
Sykes, Ella; Sykes, Percy, Sir
The book is a travelogue and ethnographic record of the Sykes siblings’ 1915 expedition across Central Asia,…
ReadThe Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old
Charles G. Harper
The work is a Victorian‑era travelogue that treats the historic Portsmouth Road and its off‑shoots as a…
ReadThe Brighton Road: The Classic Highway to the South
Charles G. Harper
Highways and Byways in London
Emily Constance Baird Cook
ReadShifts and expedients of camp life, travel & exploration
Lord, William Barry; Baines, Thomas
The work is a practical handbook for explorers, soldiers, hunters and anyone who must survive in remote or…
ReadA Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
Charlotte Biggs
The work is a collection of letters written by an English lady who lived in France during the turbulent years…
ReadExploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Part 1 (of 2)
Herndon, William Lewis; Gibbon, Lardner
The work is a formal naval report by Lieutenant William Lewis Herndon, written with Lieutenant Lardner…
ReadThe Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I 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 Charles‑Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, to an…
ReadAn Englishwoman in Angora
Grace Ellison
Grace Ellison’s An Englishwoman in Angora is a first‑person travelogue that doubles as a political commentary…
ReadA voyage round the world: Perfomed by order of His most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769.
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
This work is a nineteenth‑century French account of the great circumnavigations ordered by Louis XVII and…
Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803
Dorothy Wordsworth
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
W. Cope Devereux
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo is a travelogue that chronicles a winter‑time Grand Tour undertaken…
ReadThe World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa
Anna B. Badlam
The volume is a school‑age reference work that presents Africa as a series of “views” intended to supplement…
ReadMirabilia descripta: The wonders of the East
Jordanus, Catalani, Bishop of Columbum, active 1302-1330
The work is a medieval travelogue that gathers the observations of Jordanus Catalani, a Dominican bishop who…
ReadNorthern Spain
Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram
Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram’s Northern Spain is a travelogue that blends personal diary, guidebook, and…
ReadThe spell of Scotland
Keith Clark
The work is a sweeping, essay‑like travelogue that treats Scotland as both a physical landscape and a…
ReadSeven Legs Across the Seas: A Printer's Impressions of Many Lands
Samuel Murray
The work is a first‑person travelogue by Samuel Murray, a union printer who has saved a modest fortune to…
Letters from Egypt
Lady Lucie Duff Gordon
The work is a collection of letters written by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon during her time in Egypt, offering a…
ReadThe Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04
Richard Hakluyt
The fourth volume of Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the…
ReadFrom Peking to Mandalay A Journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch'uan and Yunnan
Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
ReadUltima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. vol. 1/2
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Richard Francis Burton’s Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland is a Victorian travelogue that doubles as a…
The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related
John Tyndall
The work is a hybrid of travelogue, scientific essay, and personal memoir, written by the…
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
H. P. Blavatsky
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan is a travel‑romance written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, originally…