Travel Books

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

Winter Notes on Summer Impressions

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Winter Notes on Summer ImpressionsWinter Notes on Summer Impressions is an early book-length essay by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky which he composed while...

tags: nonfiction, history, cultural, classics, literature, essays, writing, 19th century, travel, russia, russian literature

The Clumsiest People in Europe

The Clumsiest People in Europe

by F. L. Mortimer

A caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious look at foreign countries and their customs by a Victorian woman who rarely left the house.No matter who your...

tags: humor, travel, historical, victorian, 19th century, european literature, society, culture, nonfiction, literature, history, british literature, cultural

The Clumsiest People in Europe

The Clumsiest People in Europe

by Favell Lee Mortimer

A caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious look at foreign countries and their customs by a Victorian woman who rarely left the house.No matter who your...

tags: humor, travel, historical, victorian, 19th century, european literature, society, culture, nonfiction, literature, history, british literature, cultural

What I Saw in America

What I Saw in America

by G.K. Chesterton

Journalist, novelist, poet, artist and art critic, essayist, theologian, propagandist, philosopher, and creator of the wily old Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton...

tags: 20th century, travel, writing, catholic, politics, philosophy, essays, christianity, classics, nonfiction, literature, history, cultural

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton

by Thomas Merton

"The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground—I with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at last on my true way after...

tags: philosophy, buddhism, religion, spirituality, biography, travel, christianity, cultural, memoir, autobiography, nonfiction, asia

The Primeval Forest (Schweitzer Library)

The Primeval Forest (Schweitzer Library)

by Albert Schweitzer

"There, in this sorry world of ours, goes a great man."—Albert Einstein, on Albert SchweitzerIn July of 1913, thirty-eight-year-old medical doctor Albert...

tags: travel, africa, memoir, central africa, gabon, religion, biography, nonfiction, autobiography, history, cultural

Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850

Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850

by Florence Nightingale

Letters From Egypt is Florence's only publication not concerned with nursing. The letters reveal her as an energetic and sympathetic young woman with her life...

tags: travel, northern africa, nonfiction, egypt, history

Iceland

by Sabine Baring-Gould

Off at last! Farewell comfort, ease, good food, snug beds! Welcome hard riding, rain and cold, scanty diet and the ground for a couch! So begins Sabine...

tags: history, travel

Columbus De ontdekker van Amerika

Columbus De ontdekker van Amerika

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled...

tags: history, travel

Just Visiting: How Travel Has Enlightened Lives and Viewpoints Throughout History

Just Visiting: How Travel Has Enlightened Lives and Viewpoints Throughout History

by George Grant

"Just Visiting": How Travel has Enlightened Lives and Viewpoints Throughout History, by George and Karen Grant, is a creative look at how travel has influenced...

tags: travel

Guide to Kenya (Highlights Top Secret Adventures)

Guide to Kenya (Highlights Top Secret Adventures)

by David Marshall

tags: science, travel, childrens, geography

Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and Its Tributaries

Expedition to the Zambesi: The Zambesi River and Its Tributaries

by David Livingstone

Commissioned during Britain's golden age for expeditions to chart the Zambesi river for minerals and trade, David Livingstone left England in 1858 for what is...

tags: travel, reference, research, zimbabwe, eastern africa, history

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