Travel Writing

Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour", 1768-71

James Cook

This volume presents the original journal kept by James Cook while commanding H.M.

Six days on the hurricane deck of a mule: An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891

Almira Stillwell Cole

The work is a first‑person travel narrative by Almira Stillwell Cole, chronicling a six‑day mule‑back…

Travels in Nubia

John Lewis; Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa Burckhardt

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel memoir that records the life and explorations of John Lewis…

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa

Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820

The work is a first‑hand travel account by Abd Salam Shabeeny, a Muslim merchant from Tetuan who spent his…

Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial

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In the wake of the buccaneers

A. Hyatt Verrill

The book is a travel‑history that blends vivid description of Caribbean islands with a portrait of the…

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. 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

The work is a comprehensive, multi‑volume account of the Royal Navy’s surveying voyages along the Australian…

The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Sir Richard Francis Burton

This work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travelogue by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a British officer and…

Discoveries in Egypt, Ethiopia and the peninsula of Sinai, in the years 1842-1845, during the mission sent out by his majesty, Frederick William IV of Prussia.

Richard Lepsius

Richard Lepsius’s work is a sprawling record of the Prussian scientific expedition of 1842‑1845, dispatched…

A thousand miles on an elephant in the Shan States

Holt S. Hallett

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue that doubles as a geopolitical survey of the Siamese Shan States…

Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809)

Fortescue Cuming

Fortescue Cuming’s Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country is a travel narrative that records a two‑year…

Two Years Before the Mast

Richard Henry Dana

The work is a first‑person memoir of Richard Henry Dana Jr., a Harvard‑educated lawyer who, after a bout of…

North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State is a government‑sponsored reference work produced by the…

Under the Turk in Constantinople: A record of Sir John Finch's Embassy, 1674-1681

G. F. Abbott

The work is a scholarly narrative that draws on Sir John Finch’s dispatches as English ambassador to the…

Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely

John William Edward Conybeare

The work is a Victorian‑era travelogue that sets out to chart the flat, unvarnished highways of…

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa, Vol. 4 (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

Heinrich Barth’s fourth volume of Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa is a meticulous…

The Nile quest: a record of the exploration of the Nile and its basin

Harry Johnston

The Nile Quest is a scholarly record of the exploration of the Nile and its basin, written by Harry H.

Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1

Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that chronicles Prince Maximilian of Wied‑Neuwied’s…

Across Unknown South America

Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Arnold Henry Savage Landor’s Across Unknown South America is a first‑hand travelogue that doubles as a…

Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 1 of 2) The Russian Provinces

H. F. B. Lynch

The work is a two‑part travelogue by H. F. B. Lynch, chronicling two separate expeditions to Armenia between…

Pen and pencil sketches of Faröe and Iceland: With an appendix containing translations from the Icelandic and 51 illustrations engraved on wood by W. J. Linton

Andrew James Symington

Andrew James Symington’s work is a Victorian travelogue that blends visual documentation with a compact…

Old Indian trails

Walter McClintock

Walter McClintock’s Old Indian Trails is a first‑person memoir that blends natural history, ethnography, and…

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.

Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

The work is a nineteenth‑century scientific and travel narrative documenting the Austrian frigate Novara’s…

Walks in Rome

Augustus J. C. Hare

Walks in Rome is a guide‑style work that sets out to ease the bewildered traveler’s pilgrimage through the…