Classic Travel Writing

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See also: Travel Writing

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  • Cover scan of Sailing By Starlight
    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.
  • Cover scan of Travels Through France And Italy
    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.
  • Cover scan of Sailing By Starlight
    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.
  • Cover scan of Travels Through France And Italy
    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.
  • Cover scan of How I Found Livingstone
    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.
  • Cover scan of Across Country From Thonon To Trent
    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.
  • Cover scan of Tourist And Travellers
    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.
  • Cover scan of William Daniell's Isle Of Skye And Raasay

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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.
  • Cover scan of Shackleton's Boat Journey
    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.
  • Cover scan of My First Summer In The Sierra
    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.

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