Travelers' writings
Here are entered collections of works written by travelers from several countries. Collections of works written by travelers from a specific country are entered under Travelers' writings qualified by the nationality of the travelers, e.g. Travelers' writings, American. Works on travel to a specific place are entered under the name of the place with subdivision Description and travel, e.g Alaska -- Description and travel. Works on the authorship of writings by travelers that are often presented in narrative form or as memoirs are entered under Travel writing. Works on journalism that focuses on travel and the tourism industry are entered under Travel journalism.
See also what's at your library, or elsewhere.
Broader term:Narrower terms:- Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
- Travelers' writings, American
- Travelers' writings, English
- Travelers' writings, German
- Travelogues (Travelers' writings)
- Writings of travelers
![[Info]](https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/info.gif)
Washington Irving: An American Study, 1802-1832 (originally published 1965; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by William L. Hedges (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), ed. by Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass (PDF at Ohio State)
- Thrilling Cities (c1963), by Ian Fleming (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Die Hohenzollern am Heiligen Grabe zu Jerusalem, Insbesondere Die Pilgerfahrt der Markgrafen Johann und Albrecht von Brandenburg im Jahre 1435 (in German; Berlin: F. Duncker, 1858), by F. Geisheim (page images at HathiTrust)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Literature- Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
- Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
- Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
- Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
- Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
- Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
- The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
- Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)
- Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
- Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)
- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
- Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
- Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
- The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
- Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
- The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
- The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson
- Volume I (The Literature of Persia, Part I): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (The Literature of Persia, Part II): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (The Literature of India): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (The Literatature of China): multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amy E. Earhart (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
- A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), ed. by Raymond George Siemens and Susan Schreibman (frame-dependent HTML at digitalhumanities.org)
- A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Katherine Bode (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
- Literary Studies in the Digital Age: An Evolving Anthology, ed. by Kenneth M. Price and Raymond George Siemens (HTML at mla.org)
- A Handbook to Literature (revised and enlarged edition; New York: Odyssey Press, c1960), by William Flint Thrall, Addison Hibbard, and C. Hugh Holman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
- Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
- Heroes and Heroines of Fiction (two volumes in one; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott, c1914-1915), by William S. Walsh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- Who Wrote It? An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature (title page missing, but apparently the 1881 Lee and Shepard edition), by William A. Wheeler, ed. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Who Wrote It? An Index to the Authorship of the More Noted Works in Ancient and Modern Literature (1968 facsimile reprint; original publication Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Wheeler, ed. by Charles G. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1854), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Cyclopedia of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate Definitions of All Terms Employed in Belles-lettres, Philosophy, Theology, Law, Mythology, Painting, Music, Sculpture, Architecture, and All Kindred Arts (New York and Chicago: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1873), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (based on 1894 edition), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus, 1898), ed. by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
- Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v2; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), ed. by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge, With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), ed. by William Thomas Brande and Joseph Cauvin (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art: Comprising the History, Description, and Scientific Principles of Every Branch of Human Knowledge: With the Derivation and Definition of All the Terms in General Use (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1854), by William Thomas Brande, contrib. by Joseph Cauvin
- An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Literature and the World (London and New York: Routledge, c2020), by Stefan Helgesson and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (multiple formats with commentary at taylorfrancis.com)
- Literary Lectures Presented at the Library of Congress (Washington: Library of Congress, 1973), contrib. by Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Archibald Henderson, Irving Stone, John O'Hara, MacKinlay Kantor, John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Hillyer, Pierre Emmanuel, Cleanth Brooks, Richard Wilbur, Leon Edel, Alain Bosquet, Hans Egon Holthusen, Erich Heller, Marc Slonim, Lin Yutang, Giose Rimanelli, Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Stephen Spender, Saul Bellow, Louis Untermeyer, Ralph Ellison, Karl Shapiro, and Reed Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Imaginative Literature II, From Cervantes to Dostoevsky (Great Ideas program v7; Chicago et al.: Encyclopaedia Britannica, c1962), by Mortimer J. Adler and Seymour Cain, contrib. by Joseph Wood Krutch (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books Alive: A Profane Chronicle of Literary Endeavor and Literary Misdemeanor (New York: Random House, 1940), by Vincent Starrett, contrib. by Christopher Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory (open access reprint; originally published Evanston: Northwestern University Press, ca. 1959), by Edwin Honig (PDF at Northwestern)
- Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature (partial serial archives)
- It Needs to Be Said... (Toronto: Macmillan, 1929), by Frederick Philip Grove (HTML at Gutenberg Canada)
- Books and Habits From the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, by Lafcadio Hearn, ed. by John Erskine (Gutenberg text)
- The Cutting of an Agate (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by W. B. Yeats
- Essays (New York: Harper and Bros., 1922), by Percy Stickney Grant
- Essays in Little, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Function of the Poet, and Other Essays, by James Russell Lowell, ed. by Albert Mordell (Gutenberg text)
- Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities, by Anne C. Lynch Botta (Gutenberg text)
- Hieroglyphics (London: Grant Richards, 1902), by Arthur Machen (page images at Google; US access only)
- Initiation Into Literature, by Émile Faguet, trans. by Home Gordon (Gutenberg text)
- Letters on Literature, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Literary Hours: or, Sketches Critical, Narrative, and Poetical (third edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1804), by Nathan Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Literary Passions, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
- Post Liminium: Essays and Critical Papers (London: E. Mathews, 1911), by Lionel Johnson, ed. by Thomas Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
- Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
- Studies, Stories, and Memoirs (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Warner Classics (4 volumes of essays, selected from the introductions to authors in his Library of the World's Best Literature collection; New York: Doubleday and McClure Co., 1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Works of William H. Prescott (Montezuma edition, 22 volumes; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1904), by William Hickling Prescott, ed. by Wilfred Harold Munro, contrib. by John Foster Kirk, William Robertson, and George Ticknor
- The Choice of Books, and Other Literary Pieces (London and New York: Macmillan, 1891), by Frederic Harrison
- Obiter Dicta, by Augustine Birrell (Gutenberg text)
- The Nobel Prize Winners in Literature (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1927), by Annie Russell Marble (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Interpretations of Poetry and Religion (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1900), by George Santayana (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Letters to Dead Authors, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
- Kleinere Schriften (3 volumes, in German; Weimar: E. Felber, 1898-1900), by Reinhold Köhler, ed. by Johannes Bolte
More items available under broader and related terms at left.