Travel Writing

The Ascent of the Matterhorn

Edward Whymper

The Ascent of the Matterhorn is Edward Whymper’s first‑hand chronicle of his early forays into Alpine…

Reprinted Pieces

Charles Dickens

The volume is a miscellany of short narratives and essays assembled under the heading “Reprinted Pieces,” all…

Reconnaissance au Maroc, 1883-1884 (Texte)

Charles de Foucauld

Ce texte est le compte‑rendu d’un voyage d’exploration mené en 1883‑1884 par le vicomte Charles de Foucauld,…

The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian

Isaiah Bowman

Isaiah Bowman’s work is a detailed scientific report of the Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911, focusing on a…

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea

John Lort Stokes

John Lort Stokes’s Discoveries in Australia is a first‑hand account of the Royal Navy’s surveying voyages…

Saratoga and How to See It

R. F. Dearborn

The work is a practical guide to Saratoga Springs, New York, written in 1872 by R. F. Dearborn.

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 3 (of 5): being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M.'s Government, in the years 1849-1855

Heinrich Barth

The third volume of Heinrich Barth’s five‑part “Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa” records…

Rambles on the Riviera

M. F. Mansfield

In Darkest Africa, Vol. 2; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria

Henry M. Stanley

The work is a sprawling nineteenth‑century travel narrative that records the arduous relief expedition for…

Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands

Charles Nordhoff

Charles Nordhoff’s work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that stitches together observations of the…

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1 gathers the transcribed journal entries and selected letters of…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1

Humboldt, Alexander von; Bonpland, Aimé

This work is a scientific travelogue that chronicles Alexander von Humboldt’s and Aimé Bonpland’s expedition…

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

Isabella L. Bird

Isabella L. Bird’s work is a first‑person travel memoir that chronicles a winter journey through the Rocky…

A little tour in France

Henry James

James Henry James’s A little tour in France is a travel‑essay collection that began as a series of informal…

The Alhambra and the Kremlin: The South and the North of Europe

Samuel Irenæus Prime

Spanish Life in Town and Country

Higgin, L.; Street, Eugène E.

Spanish Life in Town and Country is a comprehensive survey of Iberian society written at the turn of the…

The Mountains of California

John Muir

The work is a sweeping natural‑history travelogue that surveys California’s great mountain systems.

Angola and the River Congo, vol. 2

Joachim John Monteiro

Monteiro’s second volume is a first‑hand travelogue that blends geographic description with ethnographic…

Palace and Hovel; Or, Phases of London Life

Daniel Joseph Kirwan

The Capitals of Spanish America

William Eleroy Curtis

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel and reference volume by William E.

Glories of Spain

Charles W. Wood

Charles W. Wood’s Glories of Spain is a sprawling travelogue that reads as a series of loosely linked…

Europe Revised

Irvin S. Cobb

Europe Revised is a whimsical travelogue that masquerades as a guidebook, written by Irvin S.

The cruise of the Snark

Jack London

The work is a first‑person travel memoir that begins with a casual conversation by a swimming pool in Glen…

A Canyon Voyage: The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Frederick S. Dellenbaugh’s A Canyon Voyage offers a first‑hand account of the United States government’s…