Travel and Exploration

Europe

Great Britain and Ireland

• Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth / Paul Hentzner [1612]
• A tour through the whole island of Great Britain / Daniel Defoe [1722]
• A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland / Samuel Johnson
• Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. / James Boswell
• Travels in England in 1782 / Karl Philipp Moritz
• Wild Wales: its People, Language and Scenery / George Borrow
• The Uncommercial Traveller / Charles Dickens [1860-9]

Iceland

• A briefe commentarie of Island: wherein the errors of such as haue written concerning this Island, are detected, and the slanders, and reproches of certaine strangers, which they haue vsed ouer-boldly against the people of Island are confuted. / Arngrimus Ionas

Continental Europe

• Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries / Albrecht Durer; translated into English by Rudolf Tombo
• Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon / Henry Fielding
• A sentimental journey through France and Italy / Laurence Sterne [1768]
• Travels through France and Italy / Tobias Smollett [1766]
• Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark / Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Alhambra / Washington Irving
• The Bible in Spain / George Borrow
• Pictures from Italy / Charles Dickens [1846]
• The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices / Charles Dickens [1857]
• Little Travels and Roadside Sketches / William Makepeace Thackeray
• Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino / Samuel Butler
• Holidays in Eastern France / Matilda Betham-Edwards [1879]
• The Roof of France / Matilda Betham-Edwards [1889]
• East of Paris / Matilda Betham-Edwards [1902]
• In the Heart of the Vosges, and other sketches / Matilda Betham-Edwards [1911]
• Essays of Travel / Robert Louis Stevenson
  Cockermouth and Keswick — An Autumn Effect — A Winter's Walk in Carrick and Galloway — Forest Notes — A Mountain Town in France — Random Memories: rosa quo locorum — The Ideal House — Davos in Winter — Health and Mountains — Alpine Diversions — The Stimulation of the Alps — Roads — On the Enjoyment of Unpleasant Places
• An Inland Voyage / Robert Louis Stevenson [1878]
• Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes / Robert Louis Stevenson [1879]
• Familiar Spanish Travels / William Dean Howells [1913]
• Twilight in Italy / D.H. Lawrence. [1916]
• Homage to Catalonia / George Orwell [1938]

The Eastern Mediterranean, Arabia and Egypt

• Voyage d'outremer et retour de Jerusalem en France par la voie de terre : pendant le cours des annees 1432 et 1433, / Bertrandon de La Brocquiere
• Travels in Nubia / John Lewis Burckhardt [1819]
• Travels in Syria and the Holy Land / John Lewis Burckhardt [1822]
• Travels in Arabia / John Lewis Burckhardt
• Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo / William Makepeace Thackeray [1846]
• Eothen / Alexander William Kinglake
• Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah / Richard F. Burton; edited by his wife, Isabel Burton. [1855]
• The Romance of Lady Isabel Burton : the story of her life / told in part by herself and in part by W.H. Wilkins.

Africa

• Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, 1795-7 / Mungo Park
• The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 / Mungo Park [1815]
• First footsteps in East Africa ; or, An Exploration of Harar / Richard Burton [1856]
• Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa : Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. / David Livingstone [1857]
• A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries and the discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa 1858-1864 / David Livingstone [1858-1864]
• Travels in Morocco / James Richardson [1860]
• How I Found Livingstone : Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa including four months residence with Dr. Livingstone / Henry Morton Stanley [1872]
• Adventures in Somali Land / John Hanning Speke
• Journal of a Cruise on the Tanganyika Lake / John Hanning Speke
• The Discovery of the Source of the Nile / John Hanning Speke [1863]
• Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo / Richard F. Burton [1876]
• The Land of Midian / Richard F. Burton [1879]
• Travels in West Africa : Congo francais, Corisco, and Cameroons / Mary H. Kingsley [1897]

Asia

• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms : Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline / Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text by James Legge
• The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
• Mandeville's Voyages / Sir John Mandeville
• The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie / Johannes Boemus; translated by William Waterman
• The iournall of Frier Odoricus, one of the order of the Minorites, concerning strange things which hee sawe among the Tarters of the East
• The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. / William de Rubruquis
• The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
• The Travels of Marco Polo / Marco Polo; translated and edited by Henry Yule and revised by Henri Cordier
• Unbeaten Tracks in Japan ; An account of travels in the interior including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrine of Nikko / Isabella L. Bird [1877]
• The Golden Chersonese and the way thither / Isabella L. Bird [1877]
• Among the Tibetans / Isabella L. Bird [1886]
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court / Anna Leonowens
• An Australian in China : Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma / George Ernest Morrison

North America

• Domestic Manners of the Americans / Fanny Trollope
• American Notes for General Circulation / Charles Dickens [1842]
• North America / Anthony Trollope [1862]
• The Journals of Lewis and Clarke 1804-1806
• Travels in Alaska / John Muir
• The Yosemite / John Muir
• Steep Trails / John Muir
• A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains / Isabella Bird [1873]
• The Amateur Emigrant / Robert Louis Stevenson [1879]
• Across the Plains / Robert Louis Stevenson [1879]
• The Old Pacific Capital [1880]
• The Silverado Squatters / Robert Louis Stevenson [1883]
• The Sea Fogs / Robert Louis Stevenson

Central and South America

• Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America, during the years 1799-1804, by Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland / written in French by Alexander von Humboldt ; translated and edited by Thomasina Ross
• Life in Mexico / Frances Calderon de la Barca [1843]
• Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle / Charles Darwin
• The Naturalist in Nicaragua : a narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests. With observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms / Thomas Belt

Pacific

• The Hawaiian Archipelago : Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of The Sandwich Islands / Isabella L. Bird [1873]
• A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa / Robert Louis Stevenson [1892]
• In the South Seas / Robert Louis Stevenson [1896]

Australasia

• Captain Cook's journal during his first voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark "Endeavour", 1768-71 : a literal transcription of the original mss. / with notes and introduction, edited by Captain W.J.L. Wharton
• Narrative of Captain James Cook's voyages roung the world : with an account of his life during the previous and intervening periods : also an appendix detailing the progress of the voyage after the death of Captain Cook. / A. Kippis
• Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales : with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions / John White [1790]
• Early Australian Voyages : Pelsart, Tasman, Dampier / John Pinkerton
• A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay / Watkin Tench [1788]
• A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson / Watkin Tench [1793]
• A journal of a tour of discovery across the Blue mountains, New South Wales, in the year 1813 / Gregory Blaxland, with references and explanatory notes, maps, etc. by Frank Walker
• Journals of two expeditions into the interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British government in the years 1817-18 / John Oxley.
• Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia : In search of a route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria / Thomas Mitchell [1848]
• An account of the sea coast and interior of South Australia / Charles Sturt
• Narrative of an expedition into Central Australia performed under the authority of Her Majesty's government, during the years 1844, 5, and 6 / Charles Sturt
• Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during the years 1828,1829,1830,1831 with observations on the soil, climate and general resources of the Colony of New South Wales / Charles Sturt
• The Bushman; or, Life in a New Country / Edward Wilson Landor [1847]
• Journal of an overland expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 / Ludwig Leichhardt
• The Journals of John McDouall Stuart during the years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, & 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and successfully crossed it from sea to sea. Edited from Mr. Stuart's Manuscript by William Hardman ..., With Maps, a Photographic Portrait of Mr. Stuart, and twelve Engravings drawn on wood by George French Angas
• Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria / William Westgarth
• Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 : sent by the colonists of South Australia, with the sanction and support of the government / Edward John Eyre.
• An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans / Edward John Eyre
• Journals of Australian Exploration, 1884 Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria.
• Narrative of an expedition undertaken under the direction of the late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy, for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York; by Wm. Carron, one of the survivors of the expedition. / William Carron
• Successful Exploration through the Interior of Australia from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria / William John Wills
• Australia Twice Traversed : The Romance of Exploration, being A Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and through Central South Australia, and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876. / Ernest Giles
• A First Year in Canterbury Settlement / Samuel Butler
• Narrative of the overland expedition of the Messrs. Jardine, from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland / F. and A. Jardine
• Spinifex and Sand / David Wynford Carnegie
• A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53 / Ellen Clacy
• Kanga Creek: An Australian Idyll / Havelock Ellis
• The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work / Ernest Favenc
• The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 / Ernest Favenc
• Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, / John Forrest
• The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson : with the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant / Ida Lee
• Early Explorers in Australia / Ida Lee
• Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia / Ernest Scott
• The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders / Ernest Scott
• Laperouse / Ernest Scott
• Australian Discovery / Ernest Scott
• A Short History of Australia / Ernest Scott

Arctic & Antarctic

• The worldes hydrographical discription. Wherein is proued ... that the worlde in all his zones clymats and places, is habitable and inhabited, and the seas likewise vniuersally nauigable ... whereby appeares that from England there is a short and speedie passage into the South Seas, to China, Molucca, Phillipina, and India, by northely nauigation / John Davis
• Voyages in search of the North-West Passage / Richard Hakluyt
• The Arctic Prairies : A Canoe-Journey of 2,000 miles in search of the Caribou being the account of a voyage to the Region North of Aylmer Lake / Ernest Thompson Seton
• The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 / Roald Amundsen
• South: the story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917 / Sir Ernest Shackleton

General

• Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation / Richard Hakluyt
• The Discovery of Muscovy / Richard Hakluyt
• Voyager's Tales / Richard Hakluyt