Another Kyoto is a matchless guide to a great city, It is the fruit of Alex Kerr s half-century of living in Japan and o......more

Marco Polo voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan on numerous diplomatic mis......more

A fascinating collection of medieval Arabic travel writing-in an important new translation. Between the ninth and fourte......more

The late British explorer and travel writer recounts his travels in the Empty Quarter of Arabia between 1945 and 1950,......more

In a study of the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, a noted British travel writer and explorer describes a way of life that ......more

Presents Mandeville s fourteenth-century account of the Holy Land, Egypt, India, and China, which includes a mixture of ......more

After Martin Chuzzlewit was published in 1844, Dickens deliberately took a break from novels to travel in Italy for almo......more

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his expe......more

A volume gleaned from Flaubert s diaries, letters, and travel notes reconstructs an 1849 trip to Egypt, Cairo, and the R......more

Goethe’s account of his passage through Italy from 1786 to 1788 is a great travel chronicle as well as a candid self-por......more

In 1907 J. M. Synge achieved both notoriety and lasting fame with The Playboy of the Western World . The Aran Islands ......more

An account of the five years that English naturalist Charles Darwin spent traveling around the world on the HMS Beagle, ......more

Presents the journals of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell describing their travels through Scotland....more

Scholar, churchman, diplomat and theologian, Gerald of Wales was one of the most fascinating figures of the Middle Ages ......more

Historical background on the Anabasis prefaces the classic account of the Greek efforts to place Cyrus on the Persian th......more