Travel

Blavatsky's letters from Bombay and beyond reveal India's inner spiritual life, resisting British colonial narratives.

Xuanzang's pilgrimage from China to India resolves Buddhist doctrinal disputes through original Sanskrit texts.

Xuanzang's journey through Central Asia and India is recorded in this comprehensive travelogue compiled by imperial command.

Xuanzang's Da Tang Xiyu ji quan yi chronicles his epic journey from China to India, documenting Buddhist sites…

Xuanzang's account of his journey to India records the geography, customs, and Buddhist institutions of the Western Regions.

The Emperor Taizong praises Xuanzang's journey and commands him to write an account of the Western Regions.

Taine's journey across the Channel reveals a dramatic shift in light and landscape, setting the stage for his…

A detailed firsthand account of travels through French provinces, observing landscapes, people, and customs with a historian's analytical…

Hippolyte Taine's journey across the Alps into Italy reveals how landscape and climate shape a nation's art and…

"The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism" is a posthumously published collection of Isaiah Berlin's essays and lectures…

A biography reconstructing the mental world of an eighteenth-century Indo-Persian traveler who gave a detailed Asian account of…

Between Maule and Amazon is a travel book by the English historian Arnold J. Toynbee, first published in…

Between Oxus and Jumna is a travel book by Arnold J. Toynbee, published by Oxford University Press in…

Voyages gathers the travel notebooks and diary fragments that Ernest Renan kept during two journeys separated by more…

George Santayana's "Miscellaneous Papers" is a posthumous collection that gathers together various essays, fragments, and shorter writings that…