List of travel books
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Travel books have been written since Classical times.
Note: Listed by year of publication of the majority of the writer's notable works.
- Wenamun, Egyptian priest
- Story of Wenamun, account of his travels through the Mediterranean sea.
Classical Antiquity
- Xenophon (431–355 BC)
- Anabasis - about the expedition of Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, against his brother, King Artaxerxes II. The book then moves on to Cyrus' Greek troops travels through Asia Minor back home to Greece.
- Lucian of Samosata (c. 125 – after c. 180)
- True History – documents a fantastic voyage that parodies many mythical travels recounted by other authors, such as Homer; considered to be among the first works of science fiction.
- Pausanias (fl. 2nd century)
- Decimus Magnus Ausonius (c. 310 – 395)
- Mosella (The Moselle, c. 370) – describes the poet's trip to the banks of the river Moselle, then in Gaul.
- Faxian (c. 337 – c. 422), Chinese traveler to India and Ceylon
- Rutilius Claudius Namatianus (fl. 5th century)
- De reditu suo (Concerning His Return, c. 416) – the poet describes his voyage along the Mediterranean seacoast from Rome to Gaul.
- Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis (c. 512-530) – describes Saint Brendan's alleged voyage to North America.
- Cosmas Indicopleustes (fl. 6th century), Byzantine traveler who made several voyages to India during the reign of emperor Justinian.
- Christian Topography (c. 550)
Tang dynasty
- Xuanzang (602 – 664)
- Great Tang Records on the Western Regions (646) – narrative of the Buddhist monk's journey from China to India.
- Hyecho (704-787)
- Wang ocheonchukguk jeon (723 – 727/728), travelogue by Korean (Shila) Buddhist monk Hyecho, who pilgrimaged from Korea to India.
- Ennin (c. 793 or 794 – 864), Japanese Buddhist monk who chronicled his travels in Tang China
10th century
- Ibn Hawqal, Arab writer, geographer, and chronicler. Travelled to remote parts of the European Mediterranean, Asia and Africa. Ṣūrat al-’Arḍ (صورة الارض; "The face of the Earth").
- Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Kitab ila Mulk al-Saqaliba (A letter to the king al-Saqaliba, Ibn Fadlan's account of the caliphal embassy from Baghdad to the King of the Volga Bulghars, c. 921)
11th century
- Nasir Khusraw (1004 – 1088), Persian traveler in the Middle East
- Safarnama (c. 1046)
12th century
- Abu ad-Din al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Jubayr (1145 – 1217)
- The Travels of Ibn Jubayr (c. 1185)
- Gerald of Wales (1146 – 1223)
- Itinerarium Cambriae (Journey Through Wales, 1191)
13th century
- Yaqut al-Hamawi (1179–1229)
- Mu'jam Al-Buldan (Dictionary of Countries)
- The Vinland Sagas (early 13th century)
- Giovanni da Pian del Carpine (1182 – 1252), franciscan missionary and archbishop of Antivari
- Ystoria Mongalorum (c. 1240), the report of his embassy to the Great Khan on behalf of the Papacy. It is the oldest European account of the Mongols.[1]
- William of Rubruck (c. 1220 – c. 1293)
- Itinerarium fratris Willielmi de Rubruquis de ordine fratrum Minorum, Galli, Anno gratia 1253 ad partes Orientales [1]
- Marco Polo (1254 – 1324 or 1325), Venetian traveller to China and the Mongol Empire, and Rustichello da Pisa(fl. late 13th century), writer.
- Il Milione (1298) [1]
14th century
- John of Montecorvino (1247–1328), Italian Franciscan missionary, founder of the earliest Roman Catholic missions in India and China. Archbishop of Cambalec.
- Letters (1305-1306)
- Odoric of Pordenone (1286–1331), Franciscan missionary who visited China
- Viaggio del beato frate odorico di porto maggiore del friuli...
- Ibn Battuta (1304 – 1368 or 1369), Moroccan world traveler
- Giovanni de' Marignolli
- Cronica Boemorum
- John Mandeville, Pseudonym
- The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1356),[1] an imaginary account of his travels in Asia based on a variety of true sources about the eastern countries, such as Pordenone's.
- Niccolò de' Conti (c. 1395 – 1469), Venetian merchant and explorer who traveled extensively through the Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia.
- Account of Niccolò de' Conti* (translated into Latin by Poggio Bracciolini, c. 1444)[2]
15th century
- Johannes Witte de Hese (c. 1400)
- Itinerarius, a fictional account with fantastic elements and impossible geography
- Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo (died in 1412), Spanish ambassador of Henry III of Castile to the court of Timur.
- Narrative of the Embassy of Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo to the Court of Timour at Samarcand AD 1403-6.[1]
- Ghiyath al-din Naqqash who wrote, in Persian, a detailed account of his travel from Herat to Beijing on a diplomatic mission in 1420-1422. It became one of the most detailed accounts of China in the Persian and Turkish literature for the next century or two.
- Ma Huan (ca. 1380 - 1460) and Fei Xin (ca. 1385 - after 1436), each of whom wrote a book about the lands visited with Zheng He's fleet.
- Niccolò de' Conti (1395–1469), an Italian merchant who explored India, China and Indonesia from 1419 to 1444.
- His travel account was written by request of Pope Eugene IV and is included in Book IV of "De varietate fortunae" by Poggio Bracciolini.
- Pedro Tafur (c. 1410 – c. 1484) Spanish diplomat of king Juan II of Castile. He travelled across Europe, Morocco and the Near East.
- Andanças e viajes de Pero Tafur por diversas partes del mundo avidos.[1]
- Afanasy Nikitin (? – 1474), Russian merchant, traveler and writer
- A Journey Beyond the Three Seas, travel notes during his journey to India in 1466–1472.
- Conrad Grünenberg, Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (1486)
- Bernard von Breydenbach (ca. 1440-1497) a deacon of Mainz Cathedral, Germany.
- Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (1486) an account of his travels to the Holy Land alongside Erhard Reuwich, an artist hired specifically to make the woodblock prints for the Peregrinatio. This book is one of the first fully illustrated pilgrims' guides in history.[3]
- Christopher Columbus (c. 1450 – 1506), Journal of the first voyage
16th century
- Ludovico di Varthema (1470 – 1517), Italian traveler, first non-Muslim European to enter Mecca as a pilgrim.
- The Itinerary of Ludovico Di Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508
- Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1531), founder of the Mughal Empire
- Baburnama, memoirs, including his descriptions of the places he lived and/or conquered.
- Duarte Barbosa (?–1521), Portuguese writer and explorer who died in Magellan's circumnavigation
- The book of Duarte Barbosa: an account of the countries bordering the Indian Ocean and their inhabitants (1516, originally known through the testimony of Italian Giovanni Battista Ramusio)
- Antonio Pigafetta (c. 1491 – c. 1531), Venetian explorer.
- Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo (1524).[1] An account of the first circumnavigation of the globe.
- Gaspar da Cruz (ca. 1520–1570)
- Piri Reis (died in 1553) Turkish geographer known for his World Map.
- Kitab-ı Bahriye(Book of Navigation), a detailed book about the Mediterranean Sea.
- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1488/1490 – 1557/1558), Spanish conqueror and explorer
- La Relación (1542). An account of his eight year's captivity and exploration in North America.
- Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509–1583), Portuguese explorer and writer
- Peregrinação (meaning "Pilgrimage", published posthumously in 1614) – memoir of his travels in the Middle and Far East, Ethiopia, Arabian Sea, India and Japan, as one of the first Europeans to reach it in 1542.
- Giovanni Battista Ramusio (1485–1557), Venetian geographer and compiler
- Navigationi et Viaggi ("Navigations and Travels") (1555-1559);[4] a large collection of explorers' first-hand accounts of their travels around the world, the first one of its kind.
- Luís de Camões (~1525-1580)
- Os Lusíadas (1572)
- Richard Hakluyt (c. 1552–1616), English priest and travel writings compiler
- The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589) – a foundational text of the travel literature genre.[1]
- Seydi Ali Reis (1498–1563), Turkish sailor.
- Mirat ul Memalik (The Mirror of Countries) about his voyage to India
- Anthony Knivet (fl. 1591–1649), British sailor and privateer, who was held captive in Brazil by the Portuguese and then by the indigenous Tupí.
- The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Antonie Knivet, which went with Master Thomas Candish in his Second Voyage to the South Sea (1591)
- Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563 - 1611), Dutch merchant, trader, and historian who traveled throughout India and Southeast Asia as a secretary to the Portuguese Viceroy.
- Itinerario (1596), published in English as Discours of Voyages into Y East & West Indies (1598)
17th century
- Samuel de Champlain, (1567-1635), French explorer, founder of New France & Quebec City.
- Des Sauvages: ou voyage de Samuel Champlain, de Brouages, faite en la France nouvelle l'an 1603 (1604)
- Brief Discours des Choses plus remarquables que Sammuel Champlain de Brouage a reconneues aux Indes Occidentalles au voiage qu'il en a faict en icettes en l'année 1599 et en l'année 1601, comme ensuite
- Voyages de la Nouvelle France (1632
- Traitté de la marine et du devoir d'un bon marinier (1632)
- Samuel Purchas, (c. 1577–1626), English cleric and travel writings compiler.
- Purchas, his Pilgrimage; or, Relations of the World and the Religions observed in all Ages, (1613) [1]
- Purchas, his Pilgrim. Microcosmus, or the historie of Man. Relating the wonders of his Generation, vanities in his Degeneration, Necessity of his Regeneration, (1619)
- Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes, contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells, by Englishmen and others (4 vols.), (1625).[1]
- Thomas Coryat, (c. 1577–1617), English traveller
- Pedro Páez, (1564–1622), Spanish jesuit missionary in Ethiopia
- History of Ethiopia (1620), includes the first account of one of the sources of the Nile River ever written by a European.
- Evliya Çelebi, (1610–1683), Turkish traveller
- Johann Sigmund Wurffbain (1613–1661)
- Reise Nach Den Molukken Und Vorder-Indien, 1632–1646 (Travel to the Moluccas and the Middle East Indies, 1632–1646) (1646)
- François de La Boullaye-Le Gouz (1623–1668)
- Les voyages et observations du sieur de La Boullaye Le gouz (1653 & 1657) – one of the first true travel books.
- Edward Terry (1590–1660)
- A Voyage to East-India (1655)
- Pietro Della Valle, (1586–1652), Italian who traveled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period
- The travels of Signor Pietro Della Valle, a Noble Roman, into East India and Arabia deserts... [1]
- Jerónimo Lobo (1595–1678), a Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia.
- Itinerário.[1] This book was translated by Samuel Johnson in 1723 and inspired his own work The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.
- François Bernier (1625–1688), personal physician of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb during his long stay in India.
- Travels in the Mogul Empire (1671) [1]
- Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689), gem merchant who made several trips to Persia and India between the years 1630 and 1668
- Les Six Voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1675) [1]
- Jean Chardin (1643–1713), jewellery trader who travelled to Persia and India
- The Travels of Sir John Chardin in Persia and the Orient (edited bit by bit between 1686 and 1711).[1]
- Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694)
- Nozarashi Kikō (Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton) (1684)
- Kashima Kiko (A Visit to Kashima Shrine) (1687)
- Oi no Kobumi, or Utatsu Kiko (Record of a Travel-Worn Satchel) (1688)
- Sarashina Kiko (A Visit to Sarashina Village) (1688)
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (trans. 1967)
- Adam Olearius (1599–1671), German scholar, mathematician, geographer and librarian
- Beschreibung der muscowitischen und persischen Reise (1647)
18th century
- George Shelvocke (c. 1675 – 1742) English privateer who carried out a Circumnavigation of the world.
- A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea (1723),[1] a book that inspired The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Coleridge.
- Richard Pococke English bishop in Ireland, the traveller in Europe and the Middle East
- A Description of the East and Some other Countries
- Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731) English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer, and spy.
- "A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, first published in three volumes between 1724 and 1727, an account of Defoe's tours, or circuits, throughout England, Wales, and Scotland, with a focus on the social and cultural landscape as well as the geographic.
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
- Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735, a satiric parody of the genre)
- Osman Aga of Temesvar (1670–1725) Turkish soldier who wrote Gavurların Esiri ("Prisoner of Infidels") in 1724 about his POW days in Austria
- Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701–1774), French geographer and mathematician who took part in the Geodesic Mission to Peru of 1735–1739, the first international scientific expedition.
- Journal du voyage fait à l'Equateur servant d'introduction historique à la Mesure des trois premiers degrés du Méridien (1751) [1]
- Jorge Juan y Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa, two Spanish mathematicians who also participated in the aforementioned scientific expedition
- Relación histórica del viage a la América Meridional (1748)
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) – known for the letters she wrote during several trips abroad, which were important for later female travel writers. These letters include:
- Turkish Embassy Letters – letters describing her life as an ambassador's wife in Turkey, important as one of the earliest discussions of the Muslim world by a woman
- Frederic Louis Norden, Danish naval captain
- Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie (1755), contains the first drawings of ancient Egyptian monuments.
- Henry Fielding (1707–1754)
- "Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon" (1755)
- Ilarione da Bergamo Daily Life in Colonial Mexico: The Journey of Friar Ilarione da Bergamo, 1761-1768.
- Tobias Smollett (1721–1771)
- Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
- Louis Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator, explorer and military commander.
- Le voyage autour du monde, par la frégate La Boudeuse, et la flûte L'Étoile (1772),[1] a book about his circumnavigation, famous at its time for his description of Tahiti as an paradisiac utopia. It also inspired Diderot's Supplément au voyage de Bougainville.
- Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
- A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) – the lexicographer and his friend James Boswell (1740–1795) visit Scotland in 1773.
- James Boswell (1740–1795)
- "An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli" (1768) – the earliest piece of literature about the Grand Tour.
- "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D" (1785) – a travel journal by Boswell about his trip with Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) to Scotland in 1773.
- James Bruce (1730–1794), a Scottish traveller in North Africa and Ethiopia.
- Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1790) where he claims to have been the first European to discover the source of the Blue Nile, despite previous accounts by Paez and Lobo mentioned above.[1]
- Paremmakkal Thoma Kathanar (1736–1799), Indian Catholic priest
- Varthamanappusthakam (1790) – one of the earliest travelogues in an Indian language
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
- Thomas Jefferson Travels: Selected Writings, 1784-1789 – record of Jefferson's travels in France, Holland, Germany and Italy, included in his Complete Works with selected portions in various collections of his writings.
- Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
- A Short Residence in Sweden (1796)
- Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796)[1]
- Jippensha Ikku (1765–1831)
- Tokaidochu Hizakurige (The Shank's Mare) – one of the most famous of the Edo period michiyuki (journey) novels.
- Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1764-1820)
19th century
- Johann Gottfried Seume (1763–1810)
- Spaziergang nach Syrakus (1803)
- Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855)
- Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A. D. 1803 (finished and first circulated in 1803; first published in 1874)
- John Quincy Adams (1767–1848)
- Letters on Silesia: Written During a Tour Through That Country in the Years 1800, 1801 (1804)
- John Pinkerton (1758–1826) (editor)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1743 – 1832)
- Italienische Reise (1816–1817)
- Domingo Francisco Jorge Badía y Leblich, better known by his pseudonym Ali Bey el Abbassi (1767–1818), Spanish traveler and spy in the Middle East
- Viajes de Ali Bey
- Sir Henry Holland, 1st Baronet (1788–1873)
- Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c., during the years 1812 and 1813 (1815)
- Marie-Henri Beyle, better known as Stendhal (1783–1842), French novelist
- Rome, Naples et Florence (1817)[6]
- Mary Shelley (1797 – 1851), English writer, author of Frankenstein
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
- Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland (1836)
- Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine (1836)
- Gleanings in Europe: England (1837)
- Marquis de Custine (1790–1857)
- Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia (1838)
- Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
- Reisebilder (1826–33)
- Harzreise (1853)
- Frances Trollope (1779–1863)
- Washington Irving (1783-1859)
- Fanny Parkes (1794-1875)
- Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, during four-and-twenty years in the East with revelations of life in the zenana, 2 vols (1850)
- Begums, Thugs & Englishmen, the journals of Fanny Parkes (2002)
- Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852)
- A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1845–6 (1846)
- Flora Tristan (1803–1844)
- Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838)
- Promenades in London (1840)
- Karl Baedeker (1801–1859), German publisher whose company set the standard for authoritative guidebooks for tourists
- Rifa'a el-Tahtawi (1801–1873), Egyptian traveler to France
- Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz ("An Imam in Paris: Account of a Stay in France by an Egyptian Cleric (1826-1831)", 1834)
- Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), German novelist and poet
- Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg (1862–1889)
- Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) – the first modern "Holy Land" archaeologist, also a memoirist:
- Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope as related by herself in Conversations with her Physician (1846)
- Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope, forming the Completion of her Memoirs narrated by her Physician (1847)
- George Borrow (1803–1881)
- The Bible in Spain (1843)
- Wild Wales (1862)
- Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)
- Roughing it in the Bush (1852)
- John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852)
- Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petræa and the Holy Land (1837)
- Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia and Poland (1838)
- Incidents of Travel in Central American, Chiapas and Yucatán (1841)
- Incidents of Travel in Yucatán (1843)
- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)
- Journey to America (1831–1832)
- Nehemiah Adams (1806-1878)
- A South-Side View of Slavery (1854)
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875)
- The Improvisatore (1835)
- Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
- The Voyage of the Beagle (1839)
- Fanny Calderón de la Barca (1804-1881)
- Life in Mexico (1843)
- The Attache in Madrid (1856)
- Alexander Kinglake (1809–1891)
- Eothen (1844)
- Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
- American Notes (1842)
- Pictures from Italy (1844–1845)
- Herman Melville (1819–1891)
- Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846)
- Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) chronicles of Melville's experiences as a sailor in Polynesia.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) left travel notes and letters, including:
- Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour (publ.1972) letters
- Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913)
- The Malay Archipelago describes eight years exploring Indonesia and other islands
- Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892)
- The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863) describes 11 years in the Amazon rainforest
- Vishnubhat Godse (1827–1904), Indian traveller and writer
- Maza Pravas: 1857 cya Bandaci Hakikat ("My Travels: The Story of The 1857 Mutiny", 1907), description of his experiences of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 during his travels in North India
- Mary Anne Barker (1831–1911)
- Station Life in New Zealand (1870)
- A Year's Housekeeping in South Africa (1880)
- Isabella Bird (1831–1904) published more than a dozen books on her global travels, including:
- The Englishwoman in America (1856)
- The Hawaiian Archipelago (1875)
- The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (1883)
- Korea and her Neighbours (1898)
- The Yangtze Valley and Beyond (1899)
- Fran Levstik (1831–1887)
- Ármin Vámbéry (1832-1913)
- His Life and Adventrures (1889)
- William Morris (1834–1896)
- Icelandic Journals (1911)
- Mark Twain (1835–1910)
- The Innocents Abroad (1869)
- Roughing It (1872)
- A Tramp Abroad (1880)
- Following the Equator (1897)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
- Palmetto Leaves (1873)
- John Burroughs (1837–1921)
- Fresh Fields (1884)
- William Dean Howells (1837–1920)
- Certain Delightful English Towns (1906)
- Henry James (1843–1916)
- A Little Tour in France (1884)
- English Hours (1905)
- The American Scene (1907)
- Italian Hours (1909)
- Joshua Slocum (1844–1909)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
- An Inland Voyage (1878)
- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1879)
- The Silverado Squatters (1883)
- William Eleroy Curtis (1850-1911)
- The Capitals of Spanish America (1888)
- The Land of the Nihilist: Russia: Its People, Its Palaces, Its Politics. A Narrative of Travel, in the Czar's Dominions (1888)
- Guatemala (1891)
- Costa Rica (1891)
- Ecuador (1891)
- Venezuela: A Land Where It's Always Summer (1896)
- Today in France and Germany (1897)
- Between the Andes and the Ocean (1900)
- The Turk and His Lost Provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia (1903)
- Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (1903)
- Today in Syria and Palestine (1903)
- Modern India (1905)
- Egypt, Burma, and British Malaysia (1905)
- One Irish Summer (1909)
- Around the Black Sea (1911)
- Letters on Canada (1911)
- Turkestan: The Heart of Asia (1911)
- Sir Martin Conway (1856–1937)
- Climbing and Exploration in the Karakoram Himalayas (1894)
- Aconcagua and Tierra Del Fuego: A Book of Climbing, Travel and Exploration (1902)
- Shibli Nomani (1857–1914), Indian Islamic scholar
- Safarnama e Rome-o-Misr-o-Sham ("Travelogue of Rome and Egypt and Syria", 1892), a travelogue of Rome, Egypt, Syria and Turkey along with his scholar companion Thomas Walker Arnold
- Walter Roper Lawrence (1857–1940), English writer who served in the Indian Civil Service
- The Valley of Kashmir (1895)
- The India we Served (1929)
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
- Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (1888)
- Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914)
- Pandita Ramabai (1858–1922), Indian feminist and women's rights activist
- Pandita Ramabai's American Encounter: The Peoples of the United States (1889)
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941)
- Europe Jatrir Diary (Part I)(1891)
- Japan Jatri (1919)
- Russiar Chithi or Rashiar Chithi (1931)
- Parashya Jatri (1932)
- Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch (1862–1908)
- Enchanted India (1898)
- Mary Kingsley (1862–1900)
- Travels in West Africa (1897)
- J. Smeaton Chase (1864–1923)
- Yosemite Trails (1911)
- California Coast Trails (1913)
- California Desert Trails (1919)
- Nellie Bly (1864–1922)
- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), French Prime Minister and WWI leader
- Au Pied du Sinaï (1898; new ed. 2000). Travels in Jewish Europe down to Palestine
- Edward Ermatinger (1797-1876)
- Edward Ermatinger's York Factory Express Journal: being a record of journeys made between Fort Vancouver and Hudson Bay in the years 1827-1828 (published 1912)
- James Theodore Bent (1852-1897), British explorer and archaeologist
- The Cyclades, or, Life among the insular Greeks (London, 1885)
- The ruined cities of Mashonaland, being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891 (London, 1891)
- The Sacred City of the Ethiopians. Being a record of travel and research in Abyssinia in 1893 (London, 1893)
- Southern Arabia (London, 1900 – completed posthumously by Mabel Bent)