Travel Literature

General

• From the Meadows of Gold by Mas'udi
• The Travels of Ibn Battutah
• Voyages and Discoveries by Richard Hakluyt
• The Journals of Captain James Cook
• South: The Endurance Expedition by Ernest Shackleton
• The Last Grain Race by Eric Newby
• Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh
• Travels With Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinsk
• The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
• Pecked to Death by Ducks by Tim Cahill
• Yoga For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It by Geoff Dyer

Europe

• Guide to Greece by Pausanias
• Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness by Ibn Fadlan
• A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson
• A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne
• Letters From England by Voltaire
• Italian Journey: 1786-1788 by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Travel Pictures by Heinrich Heine
• Letters from Russia by Adolphe De Custine
• Winter Notes on Summer Impressions by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Sakhalin Island by Anton Chekhov
• The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
• D. H. Lawrence and Italy by D.H. Lawrence
• Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West

  

• Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• The Silent Traveler in London by Chiang Lee
• Stones of Aran: Labyrinth by Tim Robinson
• The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
• Trieste And The Meaning Of Nowhere by Jan Morris
• In Siberia by Colin Thubron
• The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald
• Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk

Asia

• The Travels of Marco Polo
• The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• An Ottoman Traveller: Selections from the Book of Travels of Evliya Celebi
• Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella L. Bird
• The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
• A Secret Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina by Richard Burton
• Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

  

• The Southern Gates of Arabia by Freya Stark
• A Time to Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
• A Barbarian in Asia by Henri Michaux
• Peking Story: The Last Days of Old China by David Kidd
• Hindoo Holiday by J.R. Ackerley
• Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer
• A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush by Eric Newby
• The Inland Sea by Donald Richie
• Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger
• The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thubron
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
• Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux
• The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
• City of Djinns by William Dalrymple
• Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue by Paul Bowles

Africa

• Travels in the Interior of Africa by Mungo Park

  

• Travels in West Africa by Mary Kingsley
• Source of the Nile by Richard Burton
• The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
• Travels in the Congo by Andre Gide
• Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
• Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
• Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
• The Voices of Marrakesh by Elias Canetti
• North of South by Shiva Naipaul
• African Laughter by Doris Lessing

The Americas

• Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition by Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
• Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America by Alexander von Humboldt
• History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil by Jean de Lery
• The Journals of Lewis and Clark
• The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
• American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau
• Travels in Alaska by John Muir

  

• Roughing It by Mark Twain
• Two Years in the French West Indies by Lafcadio Hearn
• Kabloona by Gontran de Poncins
• Here is New York by E.B. White
• Travels With Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
• Kon-Tiki by Thor Keyerdahl
• The Lawless Roads by Graham Greene
• In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
• An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie
• I See by My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
• Coming into the Country by John McPhee
• Into the Wild by Bill Bryson
• A Turn in the South by V.S. Naipaul
• The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux

Anthologies

• A Book of Traveller's Tales by Eric Newby
• Travel Writing 1700-1830
• Colonial American Travel Narratives
• Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
• Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing
• Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers
• Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing
• Americans in Paris