Travel books

1,000 Places to See Before You Die is a 2003 travel book by Patricia Shultz. Among the "1,000 places" are Robert Louis Stevenson's home in Western Samoa and the trail of the Lewis and Clark expedition. ...more on Wikipedia about "1,000 Places to See Before You Die"

30 Days in Sydney is a book written by Australian novelist Peter Carey. It was published in 2001 and is subtitled "A Wildly Distorted Account". ...more on Wikipedia about "30 Days in Sydney"

A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883- 1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others. The first book publication was in 1884. A second, extensively revised edition was published in 1900. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Little Tour in France"

A Time of Gifts (TOG) is one of the classics of travel literature, written by Patrick Leigh Fermor and published in 1977 when he was 62. It is the first of two books, the second being entitled Between the Woods and the Water. TOG is an account of an overland walking trip from the Hook of Holland to Hungary in 1933/ 34. The second book takes the story from Hungary to the Danube. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Time Of Gifts"

A Tramp Abroad was a work of non-fiction travel literature published by American author Mark Twain in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris, through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves invariably using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent. The book is often thought to be an unofficial sequel to an earlier Twain travel book, The Innocents Abroad. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Tramp Abroad"

A Walk in the Woods is a book by Bill Bryson describing his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his childhood friend Katz. ...more on Wikipedia about "A Walk in the Woods"

American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America in 1842. He traveled mainly on the east coast and Great Lakes area of both the United States and Canada, primarily by steamship, but also by rail and coach. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later where he wrote far more like a tourist. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Notes" Things go better with www.shortopedia.com. Travel_books

An Area of Darkness is a book authored by V.S. Naipaul in 1964. It is a travelogue penned during the author's sojourn in his ancestral land - India in the early sixties. It was the first of Naipaul's acclaimed Indian trilogy which includes India - A Wounded Civilization and India - A Million Mutinies Now. A deeply pessimistic work, An Area of Darkness conveys the acute sense of disillusionment which the author experiences on his first visit to his native land. True to his style, the narration is anecdotal and descriptive. ...more on Wikipedia about "An Area of Darkness"

Arculf (later 7th century), was a monk of Gaul, said by Bede to be a bishop ("Galliarum Episcopus"), who, according to Bede's history of the Church in England (V, 15), was shipwrecked on the shore of Iona, Scotland on his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and was hospitably received by Adamnan, the abbot of the island monastery of Iona from 679 to 704, to whom he gave a detailed narrative of his travels, from which Adamnan, with aid from some further sources, was able to produce a descriptive work in three books, dealing with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other places in Palestine, and briefly with Alexandria and Constantinople, called De locis sanctis ("Concerning the sacred places"). Adamnan presented a copy of this work to King Aldfrith of Northumbria in 698. It aims at giving a faithful account of what Arculf actually saw during his journey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arculf"

City of Djinns ( 1994) is a travelogue by William Dalrymple about the historical capital of India, Delhi. ...more on Wikipedia about "City of Djinns"

Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels was a 1611 travel and gastronomic book published by Thomas Coryat of Odcombe, an English traveller and mild eccentric. Based on a long foot journey through European countries he took in 1608, it is credited with beginning the craze of the Grand Tour, and introducing the use of the fork to England. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coryat's Crudities"

Crap Towns: The 50 Worst Places To Live In The UK and Crap Crap Towns II: The Nation Decides are books edited by Sam Jordison and Dan Kieran and published in association with UK Quarterly The Idler. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crap Towns"

Description de l'Égypte ( English: Description of Egypt) is the monumental French comprehensive scientific description of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history. It is a publication that is the collaborated work of about 160 civilian scholars and scientists, known popularly as the savants, who accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798 to 1801, as well as about 2000 artists and technicians, including 400 engravers, who would later compile it into a full work. ...more on Wikipedia about "Description de l'Egypte (1809)"

Desert Encounter ( Danish: Ørkenen Brænder) is a book written by the Danish journalist Knud Holmboe who had converted to Islam. ...more on Wikipedia about "Desert Encounter"

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El Perú: Itinerarios de Viajes is an expansive written work covering a variety of topics in the natural history of Peru, written by the prominent Italian-born Peruvian geographer and scientist Antonio Raimondi in the latter half of the 19th century. The work was compiled from extensive and detailed notes Raimondi took while criss-crossing the country, studying the nation's geography, geology, meteorology, botany, zoology, ethnography, and archaeology; El Perú focuses to some extent on each of these topics and others. The first volume was published in 1874; several more volumes were published both before Raimondi's death and posthumously from his notes, the last being released in 1913, making a five volume set. The volumes are a classic example of exploration scholarship, and form one of the earliest and broadest scientific reviews of Peru's natural and cultural heritage. ...more on Wikipedia about "El Perú (book)"

English Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1905. The book collected various essays that James had written on England over a period of more than thirty years, beginning in the 1870s. The essays had originally appeared in periodicals such as The Nation, The Century Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Galaxy and Lippincott's Magazine. James wrote a new introduction for the book and revised many of the essays extensively to create a more coherent whole. ...more on Wikipedia about "English Hours"

Explorion is a repository of free e-books that stores complete texts of classic travel books. ...more on Wikipedia about "Explorion"

Fodor's (pronounced ) is the world's largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information, and the first relatively professional producer of travel guidebooks. Fodor's Travel Publications and Foders.com are parts of Fodors LLC, a Random House subsidiary. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fodor's"

Following the Equator is a non-fiction travelogue published by American author Mark Twain in 1897. ...more on Wikipedia about "Following the Equator"

Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road is a 2002 memoir by Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist for the Canadian progressive rock band Rush. It chronicled Peart's motorcycle trips throughout North America in the late 1990s, as he contemplated his life and came to terms with his grief over the deaths of his only daughter, Selena, and his wife, Jackie in 1997 and 1998, respectively. It was published by ECW Press. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ghost Rider (book)"

Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book 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. He also added two new essays and an introduction. ...more on Wikipedia about "Italian Hours" Can you feel it? www.shortopedia.com.

Italian Journey (in the German original: Italienische Reise) is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's report on a his 1786– 1787 travels to Italy, published in 1816– 1817. ...more on Wikipedia about "Italian Journey"

Kabloona is a book by French adventurer Gontran De Poncins, written in collaboration with Lewis Galantiere, first published in English in 1941. It recounts Poncins solo unsupported journey in the Canadian arctic near King William Island where he lived with the Inuit (in those days, still generally called the Eskimos) for about 15 months during the period 1938 to late 1939. Poncins was a French aristocratic Count of about 40 years old. The book contains many drawings by the author and 10 pages of black and white photographs, and it is considered a classic in travel literature and anthropology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kabloona"

Let's Go is a travel guide company run entirely by Harvard University students, founded in 1960 and headquartered in Cambridge, MA. ...more on Wikipedia about "Let's Go Travel Guides"

The following is a partial list of guidebooks about the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. Please see Sierra Nevada for more information. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of guidebooks about the Sierra Nevada"

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