Travel Books

Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East

A. W. Kinglake

The two frontier towns are less than a cannon-shot distant, and yet their people hold no communion.  The Hungarian on the north, and the Turk and Servian on the southern side of the Save are as m..

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

William Westgarth

I had long looked forward to one more visit to Victoria, perhaps the last I should expect to make, and the opportunity of the opening of the great Centenary Exhibition at Melbourne on 1st August of th..

Een en ander over het dorpsleven in Transvaal

Uitlander

Een en ander over het dorpsleven in Transvaal is a travel history book written by Uitlander, a foreign (mainly British) migrant worker during the Witwatersrand Gold Rush in the independent T..

McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia

John McKinlay

The following is a brief resume of the proceedings of the Burke Relief Expedition since the date of my departure from Adelaide.Started from Adelaide with the camels, etc., on 16th August, 1861, and ov..

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2

John Lort Stokes

Discoveries In Australia; With An Account Of The Coasts And Rivers Explored And Surveyed During The Voyage Of H.M.S. Beagle, In The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command Of The Lords Commissioners ..

The History of London

Walter Besant

Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, were probably best known through the detailed 10-vo..

Het settlement Malakka en het sultanaat Perak

F. J. Agassis

Het settlement Malakka en het sultanaat Perak is a travel literature written by F. J. Agassis...

The Silverado Squatters

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Silverado Squatters is Robert Louis Stevenson's travel memoir of his two-month honeymoon trip with Fanny Vandegrift to Napa Valley, California, in 1880. In July 1879, Stevenson received word that ..