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Indian Travel Writing is a new five-volume collection co-published by Routledge and Edition Synapse. Hitherto, the pauci......more

Kerr s Voyages is a comprehensive account of sea and land voyages covering 1,000 years of exploration from the 9th to th......more

The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charl......more

John Moore was a Scottish physician who travelled extensively and wrote immensely popular accounts of these, which broug......more

This collection includes the first critical editions of both Anne Grant’s Letters from the Mountains (1806), one of the ......more

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This comprehensive geographical encyclopaedia, compiled around 530 A.D., catalogues some 3,600 names of places, mountain......more

This book presents a classic text with new clarity and vigour. It gives the only detailed account of the first English e......more

Don Juan was a Persian Moslem who became a Spanish Roman Catholic. His description of Persia and his account of the wars......more

The French Jesuit Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix’s 1744 journal of his voyage through French North America--New Fr......more

Brill’s Companion to Ancient Geography is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world t......more

The Geography of Strabo is the only surviving work of its type in Greek literature, and the major source for the history......more

The Oxford Dickens edition of Pictures from Italy puts the spotlight on Dickens’s ’little book’ describing his travels t......more

This little know gem by the doyenne of women travellers in the East describes a journey on horseback through the Himalay......more

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Homer’s King Nestor of "sandy Pylas" passes from legend into history in this first volume of the report of excavations o......more

Tourism and the Lodging Sector is a pioneering book and is the first text of its kind to examine the lodging sector from......more

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A junky-manic in a panic moves to New Orleans to live in his car. Then decides to go hop freight trains from his bad hab......more

The Routledge Companion to Strabo explores the works of Strabo of Amasia (c. 64 BCE - c. CE 24), a Greek author writing ......more

7 volume set of these classic works of reference, essential for students, scholars, archaeologists, re-enactors and hist......more

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This book has been nominated for The Mountbatten Award for Best Book in the Maritime Media Awards 2021. The Routledge Co......more

In 1853, artist Frederick Piercy set sail to America to document the journey of Mormon immigrants and produce an illustr......more

Versteht man "Vermessung" in seinen diversen Facetten, so meint sie nicht nur die geodätische Erschlie ung des physische......more

International Handbook of Sustainable Tourism Economy is a timely and comprehensive handbook that responds to the growin......more

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First Published in 2001. Written by the doyen of American impressionist painters, La Farge, during his travels in Japan ......more

First published in 2005. In the South Seas is the story of Louis’s travels through the Pacificon the Casco and later on ......more

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This book explores the representation of Wales and ’Welshness’ in texts by French- (including Breton) and German-speakin......more

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This seventh volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale consists of letters, observations, and notes from Flo......more

Central Asia has been perceived as a landscape of connections, of Silk Roads; an endless plain across which waves of con......more

As spring and summer vacations beckon, this book invites and incites a whole new approach to travel. "Postmarks from a P......more

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Finalist for the 2016 National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators’ Association The life, birth......more

Five decades ago, award-winning author Herbert Gold traveled to Haiti on a Caribbean version of the Fulbright Scholarshi......more

Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ’Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriat......more

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The publication of key voyaging manuscripts has contributed to the flourishing of enduring and prolific worldwide schola......more

Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century Bri......more

Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Nap......more

Nikolai Gretsch’s Travel Letters reprints the travel letters of Russian journalist Nikolai Gretsch, who visited post-Nap......more

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This is the first thorough English commentary on the geographical books of Pliny the Elder, written in the AD 70s. Pliny......more

Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a mino......more

Travel often inspires the creation of narratives about journeys and destinations, more so with the increasing availabili......more

Adventure tourism is an increasingly widespread phenomenon, appealing to an expanding proportion of the population who s......more

The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discours......more

The 3rd Edition of Resorts: Management and Operation is a summary of almost 30 years of thought, analysis, and research ......more

Travel writing appears to be the most oxymoronic of genres: the practice of writing and reading typically requires stasi......more

Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wa......more

It is hard to imagine tourism without the creative use of seductive, as well as restrictive, imaginaries about peoples a......more

Amerikafahrt by Wolfgang Koeppen is a masterpiece of observation, analysis, and writing, based on his 1958 trip to the U......more

Cross-Cultural Travel presents the proceedings of a major international conference on literature and travel held in Nove......more

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era engages feminist, temporal, and narrative theories to offer fresh examina......more

Pytheas of Massalia (Marseille), mariner, explorer, geographer and astronomer, made a pioneering voyage into the then un......more

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The late nineteenth century was a golden age for European travel in the United States. For prosperous Europeans, a journ......more

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In this, the first full-length study in English of China’s best-known travel writer, new light is shed on the importance......more

Advances in Hospitality and Leisure (AHL), a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal published annually since 2004, aims to ......more

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Throughout the twentieth century, Nigerians have been writing about their travels within Nigeria using a variety of medi......more

This collection focuses attention on theoretical approaches to travel writing, with the aim to advance the discourse. In......more

"Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that en......more

Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and th......more

Travel in the Middle Ages is filled with the stories and adventures of those who hazarded hostile landscapes, elements, ......more

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