Travel Writing

The Cambrian Tourist, or, Post-Chaise Companion through Wales [1834] Containing cursory sketches of the Welsh territories, and a description of the manners, customs, and games of the natives

Anonymous

The Cambrian Tourist, or, Post‑Chaise Companion through Wales, is a nineteenth‑century guide that blends…

The Boy Travellers in Mexico Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Northern and Central Mexico, Campeachey, and Yucatan, With a Description of the Republics of Central America and of the Nicaragua Canal

Thomas Wallace Knox

The volume is the Mexican installment of Thomas Wallace Knox’s “Boy Travellers” series, a late‑Victorian…

The Great Frozen Sea: A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the "Alert"

Sir Albert Hastings Markham

The work is a first‑hand narrative of the 1875‑76 Arctic expedition aboard H.M.S.

Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,'

James George Frazer

The work is a series of concise sketches drawn from James George Frazer’s commentary on Pausanias’s…

Peeps at Many Lands: Turkey

Julius R. Van Millingen

Van Millingen’s work is a sweeping historical‑geographical survey of Turkey, written for a nineteenth‑century…

Italian Journeys

William Dean Howells

The work is a travel narrative that follows the author’s 1864 journey from Venice to Rome, though the route…

Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676

Lord John Lauder Fountainhall

The volume presents the edited journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, a Scottish judge who kept…

France in eighteen hundred and two: Described in a series of contemporary letters

Henry Redhead Yorke

This work is a series of letters written by Henry Redhead Yorke after his 1802 return to France, offering a…

Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4

Edmund Roberts

The work is a diplomatic travelogue written by Edmund Roberts, a U.S.

Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations

Joseph Hatton

The work is a first‑person chronicle of Sir Henry Irving’s 1884 theatrical tour of the United States,…

The autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B.

Henry M. Stanley

The work is a posthumous autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, G.C.B., presented by his wife Dorothy and…

From the Indus to the Tigris: A narrative of a journey through the countries of Balochistan, Afghanistan, Khorassan and Iran, in 1872, together with a synoptical grammar and vocabulary of the Brahoe language, and a record of the meteorological observations and altitudes on the march from the Indus to the Tigris

H. W. Bellew

This work is a first‑hand travelogue by Henry Walter Bellew, a British officer who accompanied a political…

Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The work is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s travelogue, a sprawling series of reflections recorded during his…

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 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

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that forms part of Robert Kerr’s ambitious “General History and…

Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City

Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening

Arthur Judson Brown

Arthur Judson Brown’s work is a sweeping survey of China at the turn of the twentieth century, framed as an…

All the World Over: Interesting Stories of Travel, Thrilling Adventure and Home Life

Pratt, Ella Farman; Bell, Lucia Chase; Converse, Frank H.; Stockton, Louise

Lancashire Sketches Third Edition

Edwin Waugh

Lancashire Sketches Third Edition is a collection of short, locally focused essays that aim to capture the…

A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fâ-hien of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline

Faxian

This work is a scholarly edition of the 5th‑century Chinese pilgrim’s own account of his journeys through…

Afloat on the Ohio: an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo

Reuben Gold Thwaites

Reuben Gold Thwaites’s Afloat on the Ohio is a travel‑history that records a 1,000‑mile river pilgrimage…

Shepp's Photographs of the World

Shepp, James W.; Shepp, Daniel B.

Shepp’s Photographs of the World is a sweeping visual compendium that strings together a globe‑spanning…

Travels in Western Australia being a description of the various cities and towns, goldfields, and agricultural districts of that state

May Vivienne

Vivienne May’s Travels in Western Australia is a detailed travelogue that doubles as a guide to the colony’s…

Wintering in the Riviera With Notes of Travel in Italy and France, and Practical Hints to Travellers

William James Miller

Wintering in the Riviera is a travelogue‑style guide that blends personal observation with practical advice…

My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)

Giovanni Battista Cerruti

Giovanni Battista Cerruti’s My Friends the Savages is a first‑person travelogue that opens with a vivid…