Travel

A short 1870s congressional communication by Captain Samuel Adams on exploring the Colorado River and its tributaries.

A comic transatlantic romance follows a young Westerner entangled with a runaway heiress aboard the Clan Macgregor.

William Penn's promotional tract invites settlers to the new colony of Pennsylvania, offering a plain, factual account of…

William Penn's 1685 tract reports on the progress of Pennsylvania for prospective settlers and investors.

William Penn's promotional tract describes Pennsylvania's land, climate, and terms of settlement to encourage English readers to emigrate…

A founding work of Georgian realist prose: travel letters blending landscape, peasant speech, and national criticism under the…

Słowacki's digressive verse travelogue recounts his 1836–37 voyage to the East, blending pilgrimage, irony and lyric reflection.

A travel narrative and philosophical meditation on Roerich's 1925–1928 Central Asian Expedition, exploring Shambhala.

A painter-explorer's 1920s diary of a Central Asian expedition through the Altai and Himalaya.

Nicholas Roerich's essays on the Himalayas, their peoples, legends and spiritual traditions, written from his long residence in…

A 2016 book by William Gilbert, though no verified details about its contents are available.

A novel by former merchant seaman William Gilbert, set in a Southeast Asian seamen's town and following the…

William Gilbert recalls his first fifteen years at sea as a teenage apprentice officer on British oil tankers…

An engineer's rational worldview unravels as chance and buried memory expose the limits of a life ruled by…

Eleven Victorian travellers report on journeys across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and America.