Browse by category
Following the Equator by Mark Twain
Category: Travel | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
2010 marks the centenary of Twain's death, and the author and his work are sure to receive considerable attention in the media around the world. Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the authors in ...Show more
In Morocco by Edith Wharton
Category: Travel | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
EDITH WHARTON journeyed to Morocco in the final days of the First World War, at a time when there was no guidebook to the country.
Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum
Category: Travel | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
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 earthy pastures, Slocum rebuilt a hundred-year old sloop and set off from Boston in 1895 on the first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. F ...Show more
South! by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
Category: Travel | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
South is Shackleton's 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, forcing the men to survive in and escape from one of the world's most hostile environments. With ...Show more
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Category: Travel | Series: Stanford Travel Classics
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of both cold climates and social orthodoxy. Along the way he canoed thr ...Show more
1 - 5 of 5