Subject
Journeys written up by the people who took them, or by careful listeners. Maps are not included. The public-domain narrative is on Open Library.
by Mark Twain
A Tramp Abroad details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent.
by Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi is also a travel book, recounting his trips on the Mississippi River, from St. Louis to New Orleans and then from New Orleans to Saint Paul, many years after the war.
Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 was translated into several languages, and in short order "sold a million copies. " According to historian Daniel Immerwahr, "In the 19th-century United States, only Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies in its first years" than Bellamy's book.
Pictures from Italy reveals the concerns of its author as he presents, according to Kate Flint, the country "like a chaotic magic-lantern show, fascinated both by the spectacle it offers, and by himself as spectator".
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America. While there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy stays with the Reverend Mr. Yorick on a picaresque journey through France, narrated from a sentimental point of view. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy was planned as a four-volume work, but Sterne died in 1768 with only the first two volumes published; Yorick never makes it to Italy.
Martin Chuzzlewit was originally serialised between January and July. While he was writing it, Dickens told a friend that he thought it was his best work thus far, but it was one of his least popular novels, judged by sales of the monthly instalments.
by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Diary of a Pilgrimage tells of Jerome's first visit to Germany, a trip he undertakes with his friend "B" to see the Oberammergau Passion Play.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons, subtitled A Record of the Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel, is a book by the British naturalist Henry Walter Bates about his expedition to the Amazon basin.
by Mark Twain
Roughing It was written and published, following his first travel book The Innocents Abroad.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers recounts his experience on a boat trip with his brother on the Concord River and Merrimack River.
Two Years Before the Mast is a memoir by the American author Richard Henry Dana Jr., published, having been written after a two-year sea voyage from Boston to California on a merchant ship starting.
by Ernest Henry, Sir Shackleton
South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 was published in London by William Heinemann.
by Henry James
Italian Hours collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expanded the essays to create a more consistent whole.
by John Ruskin
Volume containing the printed title page, preface, and table of contents to "The shephard's tower," being the photographic illustrations to part IV of Ruskin's "Mornings in Florence"; "End of sixth morning," AMs 1 p. Memoranda; "The visible church," printed proofs 11 p.
by Jack London
The Cruise of the Dazzler is considered a boy's adventure novel. In the novel, Joe Bronson, dissatisfied with his dull life at school, runs away and joins the crew of a sloop he sees in San Francisco Bay.
by Jack London
The Road is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time. He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding down" a train when the crew is trying to throw him off, begging for food and money, and making up extraordinary stories to fool the police.
The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle (sometimes subtitled A Tale of the Sea) is a novella by Polish-British novelist Joseph Conrad. The central character is an Afro-Caribbean man who is ill at sea while aboard the trading ship Narcissus heading towards London.
Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery recounts Borrow's personal experiences and insights while touring Wales alone on foot after a family holiday in Llangollen, and has come to be regarded as a source of useful information about the social and geographical history of the country at that time.
by Francis Leopold, Sir M'Clintock
In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions: Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator. During his third and final expedition, an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died in June.
by John Stow
The Survey of London was founded by Charles Robert Ashbee, an Arts-and-Crafts designer, architect and social reformer and was motivated by a desire to record and preserve London's ancient monuments. The first volume was published, but the completion of the series remains far in the future.
by John Bowring
A Visit to the Philippine Islands was the culmination of the 333-year colonial rule of Spain in the archipelago. The Philippines was one of the last major colonies of the Spanish Empire, which had already suffered a massive decline in the 1820s.
by Henry James
English Hours collected various essays James had written on England over a period of more than thirty years, beginning in the 1870s. The essays had originally appeared in such periodicals as The Nation, The Century Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Galaxy and Lippincott's Magazine.
The South Country was originally published in the poet's collection Five Bells: XX Poems, and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies.
Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet is a travelogue of Das' second visit to Tibet in under the orders of the British Raj.
Under the mizzen mast: A voyage round the world is set after the Napoleonic wars, in the fight for Chilean independence from Spain. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, having heard the details of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo and having collected their share of the prize from their last capture, set sail for the dual mission of charting the Chilean coast and aiding those who seek independence from Spain.
Needwood Forest was a large area of ancient woodland in Staffordshire, England, which was largely lost at the end of the 18th century.