|
8th
Century BC |
Homer. The
Odyssey |
|
4th
Century BC |
Herodotus.
The Histories |
|
400 CE |
Egeria.
Peregrinatio (letters to nuns about a trip to the Holy Land) |
|
1296 (1500 in
English) |
Maro Polo.
The Travels |
|
1596 |
Walter Ralegh.
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewiful Empyre of Guiana with
a relation of the great and Golden cities of Manoa. |
|
1625 |
John Norden.
England, An Intended Guyde for English Travaillers |
|
1628 |
Francis
Drake. The world Encompassed |
|
1636 |
Henry Blount.
Voyage in the Levant. |
|
1670 |
Richard
Lassels. An Italian Voyage, Or, A Compleat Journey Through Italy |
|
1681 |
Robert Knox.
An Historical Relation of Ceylon |
|
1684 |
Alexandre
Exquemelin. The Bucaniers of America |
|
1693 |
William
Dampier. A New Voyage Round the World |
|
1716 |
Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu. Embassy Letters |
|
1724 |
Daniel Defoe.
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain. |
|
1734 |
Voltaire.
Letters on the English |
|
1749 |
Henry
Fielding. Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon |
|
1775 |
Samuel
Johnson. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland |
|
1777 |
Capt. James
Cook. A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World |
|
1786 |
James
Boswell. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides |
|
1817 |
Mary Shelley
and Percy Bysshe Shelley. History of a Six Weeks’ Tour |
|
1820 |
William
Scoresby. An Account of the Artic Regions |
|
1826 |
William
Hazlitt. Notes of a Journey Through Italy and France |
|
1830s |
First books
about mountain climbing |
|
1831 |
Mary Prince.
The History of a West Indian Slave |
|
1839 |
Charles
Darwin. The Voyage of the HMS Beagle |
|
1849 |
Richard Dana.
Two Years Before the Mast << |
|
1849 |
Henry David
Thoreau. A Week on the Concord and Merrimak |
|
1842 |
Charles
Dickens. American Notes |
|
1846 |
Herman
Melville. Typee |
|
1849 |
Francis
Parkman. The Oregon Trail |
|
1859 |
Anthony
Trollope. The West Indies and the Spanish Main |
|
1869 |
Mark Twain,
The Innocents Abroad |
|
1871 |
Clarence
King. Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada |
|
1874 |
John Wesley
Powell. Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons |
|
1878 |
Henry M.
Stanley. Through the Dark Continent |
|
1878 |
Robert Lewis
Stevenson. Travels with a Donkey |
|
1880 |
Isabella
Bird. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan |
|
1884 |
Henry James.
A Little Tour in France |
|
1894 |
John Muir.
The Mountains of California
<< |
|
1897 |
Mary
Kingsley. Travels in West Africa |
|
1908 |
Jack London.
The Cruise of the Snark |
|
1911 |
Gertrude
Bell. Amurath to Amurath |
|
1916 |
D.H.
Lawrence. Twilight in Italy |
|
1926 |
Victory
Sackville-West. Passenger to Tehran |
|
1927 |
Alexander
David Neel. My Journey to Llasa
<< |
|
1930 |
Evelyn Waugh.
Labels |
|
1934 |
Aldous
Huxley. Beyond the Mexique Bay |
|
1934 |
George
Orwell. Burmese Days |
|
1935 |
Freya Stark.
The Valleys of the Assassins |
|
1935 |
T.E.
Lawrence. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom |
|
1939 |
Graham
Greene. The Lawless Roads |
|
1948 |
John
Steinbeck. A Russian Journey (also Travels with Charley,
1961) |
|
1950 |
Thor
Heyerdahl. Kon-Tiki |
|
1957 |
Jack Kerouac.
On the Road |
|
1957
|
Paul Bowles.
Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue |
|
1964 |
V.S. Naipaul.
An Area of Darkness <
read anything by Naipaul |
|
1965 |
Dervla Mruphy.
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle |
|
1966 |
Eric Newby.
Slowly down the Ganges |
|
1966 |
Joan Didion.
Slouching Towrads Bethlehem |
|
1974 |
Robert
Pirsig. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance |
|
1975 |
Paul Theroux.
The Great Bazaar |
|
1976 |
Bruce Chatwin.
In Patagonia |
|
1978 |
Peter Matthiessen.
The Snow Leopard |
|
1981 |
Jonathan
Raban. Old Glory: An American Voyage (also A Passage to
Juneau) |
|
1982 |
William Least
Heat-Moon. Blue Highways |
|
1986 |
Barry Lopaz.
Artic Dreams |
|
1987 |
Salman
Rushdie. The Jaguar Smile |
|
1988 |
Pico
Iyer. Video Night in Kathmandu (also The Lady and the Monk
1991, |
|
1995 |
Lovell, Jim; Kluger, Jeffrey. Apollo
13: Lost Moon. |
|
1998 |
Jan Morris.
Nothing to Declare |
|
1999 |
Jon Krakauer.
Into Thin Air |
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