Travel Writing

De heele wereld rond Een leesboek ter bevordering van natuur-, landen- en volkenkennis, ten dienste der volksschool

J. J. A. Goeverneur

Dit werk is een leerzaam reisboek dat de lezer door de diversiteit van de Russische wereld leidt.

The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence

Benson John Lossing

The work is a richly illustrated travelogue by Benson John Lossing that blends personal narrative with a…

Head-hunters, black, white, and brown

Alfred C. Haddon

Alfred C. Haddon’s work is a scholarly travelogue that blends natural‑history observation with early…

The Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial: Rivers of the South and West Coasts

Various

The work is a sweeping geographical and cultural survey of Britain’s waterways, arranged by region and river.

Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

Austen Henry Layard

This work is an abridged version of Austen Henry Layard’s extensive travel narrative of his…

Travels in Turkey and back to England

Edmund Chishull

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that records the observations of Edmund Chishull, a former…

At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies

Charles Kingsley

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that begins with the narrator’s long‑held dream of crossing…

A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land Together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz' Therein Collected

William R. Hughes

William R. Hughes’s work is a Victorian‑era travelogue that doubles as a visual guide to the places that…

The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886

Various

The volume is a nineteenth‑century regional periodical that blends travelogue, local history, and natural…

Ornithological biography, Vol. 3 (of 5): An account of the habits of the birds of the United States of America

John James Audubon

John James Audubon’s third volume of Ornithological Biographies is a continuation of his monumental effort to…

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

David Livingstone

David Livingstone’s Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa is a first‑person account that blends…

A thousand miles up the Nile

Amelia B. Edwards

Amelia B. Edwards’s A Thousand Miles up the Nile is a travelogue that blends vivid description of…

Rambles on Railways

Sir Cusack P. Roney

Rambles on Railways is a nineteenth‑century survey of railway development, written by Sir Cusack P. Roney.

An Australian in China: Being the narrative of a quiet journey across China to Burma

George Ernest Morrison

George Ernest Morrison’s work is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles a quiet, self‑directed trek from…

Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official

Sir W. H. (William Henry) Sleeman

Sir William H. Sleeman’s Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official is a sprawling memoir that blends…

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (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 first‑volume narrative of the Austrian frigate Novara’s 1857‑1859 circumnavigation, compiled by…

Zanzibar; city, island, and coast. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a nineteenth‑century travelogue by Sir Richard Francis Burton, the famed explorer of East Africa.

The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake

Ernest Thompson Seton

Ernest Thompson Seton’s account is a first‑person travel narrative that blends exploration, natural history…

A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

The work is a scholarly edition of a sixteenth‑century itinerary that describes the coasts of East Africa,…

Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada

Henry A. Murray

Henry A. Murray’s Lands of the Slave and the Free is a sprawling travelogue‑essay that weaves together…

Over the Ocean; or, Sights and Scenes in Foreign Lands

Curtis Guild

Curtis Guild’s Over the Ocean; or, Sights and Scenes in Foreign Lands is a travelogue that reads like a…

The pillars of Hercules: or, A narrative of travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848; Vol. 1

David Urquhart

David Urquhart’s The Pillars of Hercules is a travel narrative that sets out from the Strait of Gibraltar,…

Travels into North America, Volume 1 (of 3)

Pehr Kalm

This work is a first‑hand scientific travelogue of Professor Pehr Kalm’s three‑year expedition through the…

Memories (volume 2 of 2)

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale

The work is a first‑person memoir by Algernon Bertram Freeman‑Mitford, Baron Redesdale, chronicling a…