Travel writers Travel writers Aimé Félix Tschiffely (b. May 7 1895- d. January 5 1954) was a Swiss-born, Argentine professor, writer, and adventurer. AF Tschiffely (as he was better known) wrote a number of books, most famously Tschiffely's Ride (1933) in which he recounts his solo journey on horseback from Argentina to Washington DC, an epic adventure that still marks one of the greatest horse rides of all time. Tschiffely was a household name in the United States during the 1930s, meeting with President Calvin Coolidge and appearing in National Geographic Magazine and earning a lucrative living from his popular book sales. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aimé Félix Tschiffely"
Alfred Edmund Brehm (born February 2, 1829 in Unterrenthendorf, now ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Brehm"
Alison Wearing is a Canadian writer. She is noted particularly for her travel account of a trip to Iran, Honeymoon in Purdah. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alison Wearing"
Benedict Allen (born 1960) is a British explorer. He is best known for his survival modus operandi: tapping into local, indigenous knowledge above reliance on modern inventions. His approach is to present himself as ready to learn, like a infant; the communities that he visits take him under their wing, equipping him with the necessary skills. It is not always the adults but sometimes the children that ‘adopt’ and teach him. Allen prefers to travel alone and, within exploration, spearheaded the video diary documentary format for filming his solo journeys. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benedict Allen"
William 'Bill' McGuire Bryson (born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on scientific subjects. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he was educated at Drake University but dropped out in 1972 after deciding to backpack around Europe for four months. He returned to Europe the following year with his high-school friend, Stephen Katz (which, it transpires, is not his real name). Some of his experiences from this trip are re-lived as flashbacks in Neither Here Nor There, which documents a similar journey Bryson made twenty years later. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bill Bryson"
Cashman "Cash" Peters is a British author, television, and radio host who writes on travel. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cash Peters"
Chiang Yee (born 1903) is a Chinese poet, author, painter and calligrapher. (Later Jiang Yi under the Pinyin spelling system) self-styled as "The Silent Traveller". ...more on Wikipedia about "Chiang Yee"
Ella Maillart ( February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997) was a French speaking Swiss sportswoman, traveller and writer. She had been captain of the Swiss Women's hockey team and was an international skier. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ella Maillart"
Captain Harry Willes Darell de Windt ( Paris, 1856 - 1933) was the ADC to the Rajah of Sarawak, an explorer and author of many books about his travels (Overland from Paris to New York via Siberia, Peking to Paris, Russia to India via Persia, Through Savage Europe), to name a few. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harry de Windt"
Henry David Thoreau ( July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is famous for Walden (available at wikisource), on simple living amongst nature, and Civil Disobedience (available at wikisource), on resistance to civil government and among 22 other books that Thoreau published. He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fugitive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending the abolitionist John Brown. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry David Thoreau"
James Holman ( October 15, 1786 – July 29, 1857), known as the "Blind Traveller," was noted for his writings about his extensive travels. ...more on Wikipedia about "James Holman"
Jim Perrin is a British rock climber and travel writer. As a writer he has made regular contributions to a number of newspapers and climbing magazines. As a climber he has developed many new routes, and made solo and free assents of great difficulty. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jim Perrin"
Karl Baedeker (not Baedecker) ( 3 November, 1801 – 4 October, 1859) was a publisher whose company Baedeker set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karl Baedeker"
Paul Edward Theroux (born April 10, 1941) is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Europe and South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Paul Theroux"
Pausanias was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He is famous for his Description of Greece, a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, and is a crucial link between classical literature and modern archaeology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pausanias (geographer)"
Pico Iyer (born 1957) is a British-born journalist and author. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pico Iyer"
Santha Rama Rau ( 1923–) is best known as a travel writer. Her father Sir Benegal Rama Rau was an Indian diplomat and ambassador. Her mother was Dhanvanthi Rama Rau a leader in the Indian women’s rights movement and International President of Planned Parenthood. ...more on Wikipedia about "Santha Rama Rau"
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