Classic Travel Writing

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See also: Travel Writing

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  Sailing By Starlight: In Search Of Treasure Island & Robert Louis Stevenson
  Alex Capus - Paperback - Armchair Traveller
  Capus takes us on an exploratory journey via the loss of a Spanish vessel laden with gold and jewels in the South Seas, the burial of treasure, an ancient map, and a long and dangerous voyage across the Pacific, to prove that Robert Louis Stevenson's treasure island actually exists.
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  Travels Through France And Italy
  T. Smollett - Paperback - Broadview
  Full of prejudice, grousing, sharp observation, and caustic satire, this is the first travel book in modern literature to go beyond the simple conveyance of information to reflect the writer's state of mind.
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  Sailing By Starlight: In Search Of Treasure Island
  Alex Capus - Hardback - Haus
  Capus takes us on an exploratory journey via the loss of a Spanish vessel laden with gold and jewels in the South Seas, the burial of treasure, an ancient map, and a long and dangerous voyage across the Pacific, to prove that Robert Louis Stevenson's treasure island actually exists.
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  Travels Through France And Italy
  Tobias George Smollett - Paperback - Tauris Parke Paperbacks
  Full of prejudice, grousing, sharp observation, and caustic satire, this is the first travel book in modern literature to go beyond the simple conveyance of information to reflect the writer's state of mind.
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  How I Found Livingstone
  Henry M. Stanley - Paperback - Wordsworth
  Henry Stanley describes his search for David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary-explorer working in Africa during the Victorian era.
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  Across Country From Thonon To Trent: Rambles And Scrambles In Switzerland And The Tyrol
  Douglas William Freshfield - Paperback - In Pinn
  'Across Country from Thornton to Trent' is an adventure story of how three English schoolboys spent the summer of 1863 trekking through the Swiss and Italian Alps before conquering Mont Blanc. It shows how privileged young Englishmen once spent their leisure time and reveals a lifestyle long gone but still worthy of reminiscence.
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  Tourist And Travellers: Women's Non-Fictional Writing About Scotland, 1770-1830
  Betty Hagglund - Hardback - Channel View
  This title explores the ways in which travel and tourism in Scotland changed during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, focusing on the writings of five women.
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  William Daniell's Isle Of Skye And Raasay: An Artist's Journey In 1815
  John Garvey - Hardback - Matador
  This text follows the journey round Skye and Raasay made by the artist William Daniell RA in 1815. It includes reproductions of his beautiful inspirational aquatint prints, and of pencil sketches never before published.
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  Shackleton's Boat Journey
  Frank Arthur Worsley - Paperback - Birlinn
  Frank A. Worsley was the Captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. This book tells the story of the ill-fated expedition.
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  My First Summer In The Sierra
  John Muir - Paperback - Canongate
  In the summer of 1869 John Muir Made his first trip to Yosemite. When a friend offered him the chance to accompany a flock of sheep and a shepherd to the high pastures of the Sierra he could not resist. This is his journal.