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Afoot in England by W.H. Hudson
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Hudson is also an observant naturalist who describes the landscapes and the birds with an affectionate eye. (He was a founder member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language Hailing from both ...Show more
An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Following the Equator by Mark Twain
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910) better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1875) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) the latter of ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Edith Wharton journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country. In Morocco is the classic account of her expedition. A seemingly unlikely chronicler, Wharton, more usually associated with American high society, explored the country for a ...Show more
Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Mark Twain wrote a series of travel letters whilst on a tour of Europe and the Middle East in 1867 with a group of American 'pilgrims'. These letters later formed the basis of The Innocents Abroad. Journeying from New York to Egypt via France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Russia, Turkey and the Holy Land, he ...Show more
Italian Hours by Henry James
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times and setting several of his novels in the country. Between 1873 and 1909 he also wrote numerous essays and travelogues that were ultimately collected into one ...Show more
Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: Nature | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
The Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace 'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia, from Singapore to the wilds of New Guinea, encountering head-hunters, jungles, birds of pa ...Show more
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Joshsua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of 14 and for the next 35 years he sailed the world holding every shipboard rank. When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. N ...Show more
South Sir Ernest Shackleton by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Category: No Category | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. South! is Shackleton's first-hand account of the epic expedition, which he described as 'the last great journey on earth'. During the journey their ship, the E ...Show more
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Category: No Category | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
An intrepid explorer who earned his living by collecting bird skins, Wallace also catalogued the vast number of plant and animal species that inhabited this unique geographical area. In addition he includes numerous observations on the people, their languages, and ways of living and social organisation ...Show more
The Road to Angkor by Christopher Pym; Philip Coggan (Foreword by)
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics Ser.
The Road to Angkor describes a journey through Indo-China from the ancient capital of Champa (now south Vietnam) to Angkor, capital of the old Khmer empire in Cambodia. Christopher Pym originally went to Indo-China in 1956. He stayed 20 months and during 1957 made the seven-week journey described in thi ...Show more