Travel Writing

Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties

Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Elizabeth Robins Pennell’s Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting…

Hadrian's Wall

Jessie Mothersole

The work is a detailed antiquarian account of Hadrian’s Wall, written by Jessie Mothersole and anchored in…

Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The volume is a curated assemblage of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s private records from his years in England,…

Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast

James Fowler Rusling

The work is a sprawling travelogue that doubles as an official inspection report, charting a post‑Civil War…

The romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The story of her life. Volume II

Burton, Isabel, Lady; Wilkins, W. H.

My attainment of the Pole: being the record of the expedition that first reached the boreal center, 1907-1909. With the final summary of the polar controversy

Frederick Albert Cook

The work is a first‑person account by Frederick Albert Cook of the 1907‑1909 expedition that he asserts…

A Journey in Brazil

Agassiz, Louis; Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary

The work is a scientific travelogue by Louis Agassiz and his wife Elizabeth, chronicling an 1865 expedition…

The Motor Routes of England: Western Section

Gordon Home

The Motor Routes of England: Western Section is a practical guide for early‑twentieth‑century motorists who…

New Italian sketches

John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds’s New Italian Sketches is a travel‑essay collection assembled from two earlier works,…

English Travellers of the Renaissance

Clare Howard

Clare Howard’s English Travellers of the Renaissance is a scholarly essay that surveys the instructional…

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

Robert Kerr

Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, etc., part 1, May 21-October 16, 1839

Thomas Jefferson Farnham

Thomas Jefferson Farnham’s “Travels in the Great Western Prairies” is a first‑person account of an 1839–1840…

Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

C. R. Conder

Claude Reignier Conder’s Tent Work in Palestine is a first‑person account of the British Survey of Western…

The Path to Rome

Hilaire Belloc

The work is a travelogue that begins with a vivid, almost theatrical recollection of the author’s return to…

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

This volume is a first‑hand travel narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton, the famed Victorian explorer,…

A Cruising Voyage Around the World

Woodes Rogers

The work is a first‑person account of Captain Woodes Rogers’s 1708‑11 privateering cruise, presented as a…

Loitering in Pleasant Paths

Marion Harland

Loitering in Pleasant Paths is a travel memoir that chronicles an American family’s pilgrimage through Europe…

In the South Seas Being an Account of Experiences and Observations in the Marquesas, Paumotus and Gilbert Islands in the Course of Two Cruises on the Yacht "Casco" (1888) and the Schooner "Equator" (1889)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s account is a travel narrative that chronicles three voyages through the South…

Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation With an inquiry into the comparative merits of different mineral waters: The Maladies to Which They Are Applicable, and Those in Which They Are Injurious

James Johnson

James Johnson’s work is a sprawling travelogue that doubles as a practical guide for the 19th‑century…

Wanderings in London, Piccadilly, Mayfair, and Pall Mall

E. Beresford Chancellor

The work is a leisurely guide to the historic heart of London’s West End, charting a half‑mile walk from the…

The Highlands of Ethiopia

Sir William Cornwallis Harris

The work is a second‑edition travel narrative in which Sir William Cornwallis Harris sets out to defend his…

Java: The garden of the East

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

The work is a travel‑guide‑memoir hybrid that opens with a courteous nod to a newly released Dutch East…

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II

A. E. Nordenskiöld

The work is a comprehensive scientific and historical account of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld’s 1878‑79 expedition…

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series

John Addington Symonds

The work is a post‑Victorian travel compilation that gathers John Addington Symonds’s three earlier volumes,…