Travel Stories

A five-week journey across the African continent in a specially designed hydrogen balloon called the Victoria.

The book is a non-fictional travelogue and personal journal from Lewis's time managing a Jamaican sugar plantation.

The story is framed as a tale told by a seaman to fellow sailors aboard a boat anchored on the Thames River.

A nonfiction book that offers a vivid and lyrical portrait of California's natural beauty, cultural diversity, and regional character.

A posthumously published account of Thoreau’s canoe trip through the remote lakes and rivers of Maine, accompanied by his guide.

The story follows Anna-Rose and Anna-Felicitas von Twinkler, a pair of German-English orphaned twin sisters.

Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872, following his first travel book The Innocents Abroad (1869). Roughing It is dedicated to Twain's mining companion Calvin H. Higbie, later a civil engineer who died in 1914.

Following the Equator (sometimes titled More Tramps Abroad) is a non-fiction social commentary in the form of a travelogue published by Mark Twain in 1897.

A collection of biographical and adventure sketches in which Powell tells the stories of famous explorers, adventurers, and soldiers of fortune.

Four English women decide to rent a castle in Italy for a month in April to escape the drudgery of their daily routines.