Voyages and travels books

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1

Polo, Marco; Rusticiano, da Pisa

The volume presents a scholarly edition of Marco Polo’s 13th‑century account of his journeys through Asia,…

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Polo, Marco; Rusticiano, da Pisa

The second volume of The Travels of Marco Polo continues the Venetian explorer’s extensive record of the…

Abrégé de l'Histoire Générale des Voyages (Tome 2)

Jean-François de La Harpe

Ce volume, rédigé par Jean‑François de La Harpe, fait partie de son « Abrégé de l’Histoire Générale des…

Terveeks' — Buddha!

Sulo-Weikko Pekkola

Terveeks', Buddha! on Sulo‑Weikko Pekkolan matkakertomus, joka kuljettaa lukijan läpi laivanmatkojen, Intian…

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad is a sprawling travel narrative that blends observation, satire, and…

Birdseye Views of Far Lands

James T. Nichols

Birdseye Views of Far Lands is a travel‑survey that strings together vivid, fact‑laden sketches of nations…

A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499

This volume presents the original journal of Vasco da Gama’s first voyage to India, 1497‑1499, together with…

Memories

C. F. Gordon Cumming

The work is a memoir of Gordon Cumming, C. F. (Constance Frederica), a Scottish woman of aristocratic birth…

The diary of a Russian lady: reminiscences of Barbara Doukhovskoy (née princesse Galitzine)

Varvara Dukhovskaia

The diary presents itself as a sprawling memoir of Varvara Dukhovskaia, a Russian noblewoman whose…

Maritime enterprise, 1485-1558

James A. Williamson

The book is a scholarly survey of English maritime activity from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the…

Travels to Tana and Persia: A narrative of Italian travels in Persia, in the 15th and 16th centuries

Barbaro, Giosofat; Contarini, Ambrogio

The volume is a scholarly collection of six first‑hand accounts by Italian envoys who travelled through…

Twenty years around the world

John Guy Vassar

The work is a sprawling travelogue compiled from the letters of John Guy Vassar, a 19th‑century wanderer who…

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…

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World

Jules Verne

The work is a sweeping survey of the great explorers who have shaped humanity’s knowledge of the globe, from…

From Sea to Sea; Letters of Travel

Rudyard Kipling

The mystery of Easter island: The Story of an Expedition

Katherine Routledge

The book is a first‑hand account of a British scientific expedition to Easter Island, written by Katherine…

The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela

Benjamin, of Tudela, active 12th century

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II

Richard Hakluyt

A voyage to the South Sea: Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies

William Bligh

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 13 America, Part II

Richard Hakluyt

A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner

Matthew Flinders

Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 3. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

Jules Verne

Through the first Antarctic night, 1898-1899: a narrative of the voyage of the "Belgica" among newly discovered lands and over an unknown sea about the south pole

Frederick Albert Cook

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16

Robert Kerr