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Mission to the Volga
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the ......
ISBN-13: 9781479899890 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Tim Severin, James E. Montgomery
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Local release date: 04/05/2017
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Classic travel writing [WTLC]Russia [1DVUA]Middle East [1FB]c 500 CE to c 1000 CE [3F]

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My Journey to Egypt
ISBN-13: 9781783341078 (Paperback)
Publisher: GIBSON SQUARE
Imprint: GIBSON SQUARE
Jean-Francois Champollion, Joyce Tyldesley, Peter A. Clayton, Martin Rynja
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Local release date: 29/01/2020
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Categories: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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Sailing Alone Around the World 3/e
Joshua Slocum spent a lifetime at sea. He ran away from his Nova Scotia home at the age of 14 and for the next 35 years he sailed the world holding every shipboard rank. When a ship under his command was wrecked on the coast of Brazil in 1887, it seemed that his maritime career had ended in disgrace. Not one for retiring to earthly pastures, ......
ISBN-13: 9781909612600 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Imprint: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Joshua Slocum
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Local release date: 22/06/2015
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Categories: Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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South! 3/e
Ernest Shackleton sailed to the South Pole as the First World War broke out in Europe, intent on making the first ever trans-Antarctic crossing. South! is Shackletons first-hand account of the epic expedition, which he described as the last great journey on earth. During the journey their ship, the Endurance, became trapped by ice and was crushed, ......
ISBN-13: 9781909612617 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Imprint: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
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Local release date: 22/06/2015
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Categories: Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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The First Crossing of Greenland
ISBN-13: 9781783340941 (Paperback)
Publisher: GIBSON SQUARE
Imprint: GIBSON SQUARE
Fridtjof Nansen
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Local release date: 26/04/2017
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Categories: European history [HBJD]20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]Maritime history [HBTM]Geographical discovery & exploration [RGR]Classic travel writing [WTLC]Greenland [1MTNG]Arctic Ocean [1QSR]20th century [3JJ]

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The Road is Wider Than Long
This special facsimlie of the original book provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of two artists and their journey of discovery in a world that would be soon be transformed and in parts lost forever. Altogether this affecting and intimate publication has an important place in the history of Surrealist literature.
ISBN-13: 9781914298004 (Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
Roland Penrose
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Local release date: 30/05/2021
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Categories: Other graphic art forms [AFJ]Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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The Road to Angkor (Stanfords Travel Classics)
The Road to Angkor describes a journey through Indo-China from the ancient capital of Champa (now south Vietnam) to Angkor, capital of the old Khmer empire in Cambodia. Christopher Pym originally went to Indo-China in 1956.
ISBN-13: 9781912081325 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Imprint: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Christopher Pym
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Local release date: 18/08/2023
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Categories: Classic travel writing [WTLC]Cambodia [1FMC]Vietnam [1FMV]c 1945 to c 1960 [3JJPG]

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The Voyage of the Beagle
Presents the author's account of his five-year journey aboard the Royal Navy ship HMS Beagle (1831-1836) as it surveyed the coasts of South America, New Zealand, Australia, and the famous Galapagos Archipelago. This title provides examples of the scientist's reasoning ability and intriguing glimpses into his thought processes.
ISBN-13: 9781573927734 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Charles Darwin
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Local release date: 30/01/2000
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Categories: Literary essays [DNF]Evolution [PSAJ]Classic travel writing [WTLC]South America [1KLS]