Travel Writing

Travels in Alaska

John Muir

John Muir’s Travels in Alaska is a natural‑history travel memoir that records the explorer’s first forays…

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. — Volume 1 Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition.

John MacGillivray

The work is a detailed, first‑person account of the Royal Navy’s surveying expedition aboard H.M.S.

The Yosemite

John Muir

The work is a natural‑history travelogue that blends personal adventure with a systematic survey of…

The Fortunate Isles: Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza

Mary Stuart Boyd

The Fortunate Isles is a travel memoir that chronicles Mary Stuart Boyd’s winter sojourn across the Balearic…

Tales of lonely trails

Zane Grey

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

Isabella L. Bird

The work is a nineteenth‑century geographical and historical survey of the Malay Peninsula, written by…

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson

The work is a seventeenth‑century travel narrative that records a tour of Scotland’s western coast and its…

Western Himalaya and Tibet A Narrative of a Journey Through the Mountains of Northern India During the Years 1847-8

Thomas Thomson

Thomas Thomson’s work is a detailed travel narrative that records his 1847‑1848 expedition through the…

English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s English Traits is a travel‑essay that begins with a vivid recollection of his 1833…

The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales

Frank Thomas Bullen

Frank Thomas Bullen’s work is a first‑hand whaling narrative that sets out to fill a gap left by the…

Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) (2nd ed.) (1888)

William Henry Hurlbert

William Henry Hurlbert’s Ireland Under Coercion is a two‑volume diary that blends travelogue, political…

From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea: The narrative of a journey, in 1890 and 1891, across Siberia, Mongolia, the Gobi desert, and north China

Julius M. Price

Julius M. Price’s work is a travelogue that chronicles his 1890‑91 expedition from the Arctic Ocean across…

The World of Waters, Or, A Peaceful Progress O'er the Unpathed Sea

Mrs. David Osborne

The work is a sprawling educational adventure that frames geography as a series of lively conversations among…

Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 2/2

C. Rochfort‏ Scott

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that blends a geographical guide with vivid ethnographic sketches…

The Confessions of a Beachcomber

E. J. Banfield

The work is a first‑person account by E. J. Banfield, an English‑born naturalist who settled on Dunk Island…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume presents Robert Louis Stevenson’s South‑Sea narratives as a hybrid of travelogue and ethnographic…

The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines

Isabel Anderson

Isabel Anderson’s “The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines” is a travel memoir that blends…

Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This work is a collection of sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne that he originally intended as background…

The wilds of Patagonia: a narrative of the Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in 1907-1909

Carl Skottsberg

The work is a first‑hand scientific travelogue that records a Swedish expedition to Patagonia, Tierra del…

Botanical features of the Algerian Sahara

William Austin Cannon

The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 2 (of 2)

Juan González de Mendoza

The work is a sprawling seventeenth‑century chronicle that blends missionary report, diplomatic observation,…

Essays of Travel

Robert Louis Stevenson

The volume gathers Robert Louis Stevenson’s travel essays, beginning with a heartfelt dedication that frames…

The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula

George Borrow

George Borrow’s The Bible in Spain is a first‑person account of his five‑year mission for the British and…

Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland. vol. 2/2

Sir Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton’s Ultima Thule; or, A Summer in Iceland is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that begins…