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Travel writing

Diagram of Travel writing and its most common sub-genres. Clockwise from top left: Descriptive/Evocative (travel book); Narrative/Evocative (travel literature); Narrative/Instructive (travel journal); Descriptive/Instructive (guide book).; Sub-genres of travel writing

Works

• Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, 1841, by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
• "How Far from Home," 1848, by Lydia Sigourney
• A Tramp Abroad, 1880, by Mark Twain
• Portraits of Places, 1883, by Henry James
• The Harvard Classics Vol. 51
  • Voyages and Travel I.
  • Voyages and Travel II.
  • Voyages and Travel III.
  • Voyages and Travel IV.
  • Voyages and Travel V.

Africa

South Africa

• The Victoria Falls (1879) by Emil Holub
• Seven Years in South Africa by Emil Holub (1881)
• "In the Lion Country" by Parker Gillmore in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (September 1886)
• "With the British Association in South Africa" (Part I and Part II) by Ernest William Brown in Popular Science Monthly, 68 (January and February 1906)

Central Africa

• "Life at the Cameroons" by Robert Müller in Popular Science Monthly, 35 (October 1889)

Indian Ocean

• "The Cocoa-Nut Palm and its Uses" by Charles Rathbone Low in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (December 1872)
• "Journeying in Madagascar" by Frank Vincent in Popular Science Monthly, 47 (June 1895)

Americas

Caribbean

• A New Survey of the West Indies or The English American His Travel by Sea and Land, 1677, by Thomas Gage
• A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica, 1825, by James Hakewill
• "Life on a Coral Island" by William Keith Brooks in Popular Science Monthly, 29 (October 1886)
• "A Spring Visit to Nassau" by Emma Gertrude Cummings in Popular Science Monthly, 52 (April 1898)

Central America (other)

• Guatimala or the United Provinces of Central America in 1827-8, 1828, by Henry Dunn
• Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, 1854 travelogue by John Lloyd Stephens, edited by Frederick Catherwood
• Panama, Past and Present, 1916, by Farnham Bishop

Mexico

• Mexico, as It Was and Is, 1847, by Brantz Mayer
• Our Sister Republic, 1870, by Albert S. Evans

South America

• "Darwin on the Fuegians and Patagonians" by Charles Darwin in Popular Science Monthly, 36 (April 1890)

United States

• Massachusetts: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, 1849, by Henry David Thoreau
• The West: Roughing It, 1872, by Mark Twain
• Alaska: "Arctic Alaska" by William Lauriston Howard in Popular Science Monthly, 33 (July 1888)
• Michigan: "The Border Land of Trampdom" by William Charles Noble in Popular Science Monthly, 50 (December 1896)
• America To-day, Observations and Reflections, 1900, by William Archer

Asia

China

• A Wayfarer in China, 1913, by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

India

• "The Cocoa-Nut Palm and Its Uses" by Charles Rathbone Low in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (December 1872)
• "Regarding Matters in India" by George Francis Lyon in Popular Science Monthly, 2 (March 1873)
• "Eurasia" by Sara Jeannette Duncan in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (November 1892)

Nepal

• Picturesque Nepal, 1912, by Percy Brown

Saudi Arabia

• The Northern Ḥeǧâz, 1926, by Alois Musil

Tibet

• "The Topmost Country of the Earth" by Gustav Kreitner in Popular Science Monthly, 21 (August 1882)
• In the Forbidden Land, 1898, by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

Central Asia (other)

• A Journey in Khorassan and Central Asia, 1890, by Robert John Kennedy

South-East Asia (other)

• "Ethnological Sketches in Annam and Tonquin" in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (September 1887)
• "A Scientific Mission to Cambodia" by Édouard Maurel in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (January 1887)

Europe

Ireland

• The Aran Islands, 1907, by John Millington Synge

Britain

• The History of the Roman Wall, 1802, by William Hutton
• Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, 1835, by Washington Irving
• English Hours, 1905, by Henry James
• Letters from England, 1925, by Karel Čapek

France

• A Little Tour in France, 1884, by Henry James
• In Troubadour-Land, 1891, by Sabine Baring-Gould

Germany

• "Hanoverian Village Life" by Walter Nordhoff in Popular Science Monthly, 16 (February 1880)

Italy

• Pictures from Italy, 1846, by Charles Dickens
• "Summer Days in Ischia" by Louisa Courtenay Peach in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 2 (1860)
• "Old Ficulea" by Francis Carton in Once a Week (magazine), Series 1, 4 (1860)
• Mornings in Florence, 1875, by John Ruskin
• Italian Hours, 1909, by Henry James
• Letters from Italy, 1929, by Karel Čapek

Northern Europe

• "Nature and Life in Lapland" by Joseph Chamberlain in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (February 1877)

Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

• Persia, 1828, by Frederic Shoberl
• Diary of a Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 1841, by Mary G. E. Dawson-Damer
• Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz, 1862, by Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic, transl. by Albert Henry Wratislaw
• Syria, the Land of Lebanon, 1913, by Lewis Gaston Leary

Oceania

Australasia

• The Boy Travellers in Australasia, 1889, by Thomas Wallace Knox

Indonesia

• "A Corner of the Dutch East Indies" by G. Langen in Popular Science Monthly, 35 (September 1889)

Melanesia

• "Life in the South-Sea Islands" by Cyprian Bridge in Popular Science Monthly, 30 (December 1886)
• Picturesque New Guinea, 1887, by John William Lindt
• "Among the Fiji Islands" by Coutts Trotter in Popular Science Monthly, 34 (March 1889)
• "Life in the Solomon Islands" by Charles Morris Woodford in Popular Science Monthly, 35 (August 1889)

Polynesia

• Rambles in New Zealand, 1841, by John Carne Bidwill
• Picturesque New Zealand, 1913, by David Paul Gooding

Global

• Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, 1890, by Nellie Bly