Travel Books

The Innocents Abroad

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's 1869 book The Innocents Abroad; or, The New Pilgrims' Progress is a humorous travelogue of a voyage Twain undertook two years earlier. He'd sent letters to the newspapers about his steams..

How to Enjoy Paris in 1842

F. Hervé

How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 by F. Hervé. Preface from the book:In offering the following pages to the public, the author has been principally influenced by a desire of uniting useful information with t..

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

W. Blanchard Jerrold

The money to found a British Museum was raised by a lottery in the middle of the last century. Sir Hans Sloane having offered his books and museum of natural history to Parliament, for less than half ..

Food for the Traveler

Dora C. C. L. Roper

These pages are dedicated to those who are seeking light on the question of rational living and to all who are suffering from the effects of wrong living. Thought along this line expresses growth and ..

Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey

Washington Irving

I sit down to perform my promise of giving you an account of a visit made many years since to Abbotsford. I hope, however, that you do not expect much from me, for the travelling notes taken at the ti..

A Tramp Abroad

Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad is a work of travel literature, including a mixture of autobiography and fictional events, by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, wi..

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War, and also a travel book, recounting his trip along the Mississ..

Roughing It

Mark Twain

Roughing It is a book of semi-autobiographical travel literature by Mark Twain. It was written in 1870–71 and published in 1872,  as a prequel to his first travel book The Innocents Abroad (1869)..