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1varielle
The Pilgrim: The Journeys of Pietro della Valle
The Voyage of the Beagle
Jaguars and Electric Eels
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Travels of ibn Battutah
The Voyage of the Beagle
Jaguars and Electric Eels
The Travels of Marco Polo
The Travels of ibn Battutah
2lilithcat
A Sailor's Fare: Being a History of 19th-Century Victualing for the Sailing Ship, including Recipes for a Long Sea Voyage
Love Among the Butterflies: the diaries of a wayward, determined and passionate Victorian lady, by Margaret Fountaine
Hakluyt's Voyages, by Richard Hakluyt
Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages, by Elkan Nathan Adler
The English governess at the Siamese court : being recollections of six years in the royal palace at Bangkok, by Anna Leonowens
Love Among the Butterflies: the diaries of a wayward, determined and passionate Victorian lady, by Margaret Fountaine
Hakluyt's Voyages, by Richard Hakluyt
Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages, by Elkan Nathan Adler
The English governess at the Siamese court : being recollections of six years in the royal palace at Bangkok, by Anna Leonowens
3CarolO
Yukon Ho! by Bill Watterson
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
River-Horse: Across America by Boat by William Least Heat-Moon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Imperial Way : By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong by Paul Theroux
I'm from the USA...it doesn't have to be very old for us to call it an 'antique' :)
A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain
River-Horse: Across America by Boat by William Least Heat-Moon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Imperial Way : By Rail from Peshawar to Chittagong by Paul Theroux
I'm from the USA...it doesn't have to be very old for us to call it an 'antique' :)
4laytonwoman3rd
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Odyssey by Homer
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Silk Road by Jeanne Larsen
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
The Odyssey by Homer
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
Silk Road by Jeanne Larsen
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
5aviddiva
On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet by Luree Miller
Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Travel Guide to Europe 1492: Ten Itineraries in the Old World by Lorenzo Camusso
Peregrinations of a Pariah by Flora Tristan
Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Travel Guide to Europe 1492: Ten Itineraries in the Old World by Lorenzo Camusso
Peregrinations of a Pariah by Flora Tristan
6mamalaz
The Road From the Past: Traveling Through History in France by Ina Caro
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
Longitude:The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Soldved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
Blue Lattitudes by Tony Horwitz
Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
Longitude:The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Soldved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
Blue Lattitudes by Tony Horwitz
7MarianV
Westviking - the story of the Norse in Greenland & America Farley Mowat
Riders of the Pony Express Ralph Moody
Travels with my Donkey Tim Moore
The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman
Yesterday's Train Terry Pindell
Riders of the Pony Express Ralph Moody
Travels with my Donkey Tim Moore
The Oregon Trail Francis Parkman
Yesterday's Train Terry Pindell
8thorold
The Lusiads by Luís Vaz de Camões
A sentimental journey through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Domestic manners of the Americans by Mrs Frances Trollope
...I don't normally enjoy the "serious" subjects here, but Varielle's post reminded me that I've been meaning to have a go at ibn Battutah for ages, but keep forgetting his name!
A sentimental journey through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Morier
Travels with a donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Domestic manners of the Americans by Mrs Frances Trollope
...I don't normally enjoy the "serious" subjects here, but Varielle's post reminded me that I've been meaning to have a go at ibn Battutah for ages, but keep forgetting his name!
9KimarieBee
The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula by Eric Nuzum
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss
Wagon Train: 30 Years Across the Far Blue Mountains by Jim Thompson
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati
The Tin Ticket: The Heroic Journey of Australia's Convict Women by Deborah J. Swiss
Wagon Train: 30 Years Across the Far Blue Mountains by Jim Thompson
10rolandperkins
Ancient Accounts of India and China by two
Mohammedan Travellers, who went to those Parts in the 9th Century by Sulayman al-Tajir
Ancient Egypt: Thebes and the Nile Valley in
the year 1200 BCE by Charlotte Booth
Itinerarium Totius Sacrae Scripturae; or, abstract of the Holy Bible, by way of question and answer . . . . .by Christopher Brown
When and Where in Italy: a Passport to Yesterday for Readers and Travelers of Today
by Genevieve Foster
Where did they Come from? Mysterious Origins of Ancient People
by James Cornell
Mohammedan Travellers, who went to those Parts in the 9th Century by Sulayman al-Tajir
Ancient Egypt: Thebes and the Nile Valley in
the year 1200 BCE by Charlotte Booth
Itinerarium Totius Sacrae Scripturae; or, abstract of the Holy Bible, by way of question and answer . . . . .by Christopher Brown
When and Where in Italy: a Passport to Yesterday for Readers and Travelers of Today
by Genevieve Foster
Where did they Come from? Mysterious Origins of Ancient People
by James Cornell
11patchygirl
Through England on a Sidesaddle by Celia Fiennes
Through Connemara in a Governess Cart by E OE Somerville and V M Ross
Slow Train to Switzerland by Diccon Bewes
Clarissa's England by Clarissa Dickson Wright - lovely cover photo including an old Morris Traveller.
The School at the Chalet by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. This includes a description of overnight train travel in mainland Europe that I loved as a kid.*
*Edit - Eek! Apols - I realised I included a small spoiler!! Deleted now.
Through Connemara in a Governess Cart by E OE Somerville and V M Ross
Slow Train to Switzerland by Diccon Bewes
Clarissa's England by Clarissa Dickson Wright - lovely cover photo including an old Morris Traveller.
The School at the Chalet by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. This includes a description of overnight train travel in mainland Europe that I loved as a kid.*
*Edit - Eek! Apols - I realised I included a small spoiler!! Deleted now.
13rolandperkins
A Voyage to Abyssinia and travels into
the Interior of that Country . . . in the Years
1809 and 1810 by Henry Salt
Voyages that Changed the World
by Peter Aughton
Journeys that Opened up the World: Women, Student Christian Movements and Social Justice,
1955-1975 by Sara Evans
Magnetic North: a Trek across Canada
by David Halsey
The View from the Bridge: Memories of
Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood
by Nicholas Meyer
the Interior of that Country . . . in the Years
1809 and 1810 by Henry Salt
Voyages that Changed the World
by Peter Aughton
Journeys that Opened up the World: Women, Student Christian Movements and Social Justice,
1955-1975 by Sara Evans
Magnetic North: a Trek across Canada
by David Halsey
The View from the Bridge: Memories of
Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood
by Nicholas Meyer
