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Antiquarian Travel

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3CarolO
Feb 18, 2010, 1:46 am

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' :)

4laytonwoman3rd
Feb 18, 2010, 1:26 pm

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

6mamalaz
Apr 10, 2010, 8:25 pm

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

7MarianV
Apr 10, 2010, 8:59 pm

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

8thorold
Apr 12, 2010, 7:32 am

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!

10rolandperkins
Edited: Jan 9, 2018, 8:44 pm

11patchygirl
Edited: May 22, 2018, 7:39 am

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.

13rolandperkins
Edited: May 29, 2018, 9:30 pm

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