Middle East -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
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Travels From England to India, in the Year 1789, by the Way of the Tyrol, Venice, Scandaroon, Aleppo, and Over the Great Desart to Bussora; With Instructions for Travellers, and an Account of the Expence of Travelling, &c. &c. (2 volumes; London: Printed by S. Low for J. Carpenter and Murray and Highley, 1799), by John Taylor- Travels through Arabia and Other Countries in the East (2 volumes; Edinburgh: Printed for R. Morison and Son, et al., 1792), by Carsten Niebuhr, ed. by Robert Heron
- Voyage dans l'Inde, au Travers du Grand Désert, par Alep, Antioche et Bassora (2 volumes in French; Paris: Genest, 1803), by John Taylor, contrib. by L. de Grandpré (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- Beschreibung der Reisen des Reinhold Lubenau (all known US-public domain portions of this edition, in German; Konigsberg: F. Beyer, 1914-1920), by Reinhold Lubenau, ed. by W. Sahm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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Filed under: Middle East -- Description and travel- A Colored Man Round the World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), by David F. Dorr, ed. by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)
- Journal Up the Straits, October 11, 1856-May 5, 1857 (New York: The Colophon, 1935), by Herman Melville, ed. by Raymond M. Weaver (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beyond the Bosphorus (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1926), by Dorothy Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
- Amurath to Amurath (London: W. Heinemann, 1911), by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Another Budget: or, Things Which I Saw in the East (second edition; Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855), by Jane Anthony Eames (page images at Google)
- Boy Travelers in Arabia: or, From Boston to Bagdad (New York: Phillips and Hunt; Cincinnati: Cranston and Stowe, 1885), by Daniel Wise
- Buck Whaley's Memoirs, Including His Journey to Jerusalem, Written by Himself in 1797 and Now First Published From the Recently Discovered Manuscript (London: Alexander Moring Ltd., 1906), by Thomas Whaley, ed. by Edward Sullivan (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dawnings of Light in the East: With Biblical, Historical, and Statistical Notices of Persons and Places Visited During a Mission to the Jews, in Persia, Coordistan, and Mesopotamia (London: C. H. Purday. 1854), by Henry Aaron Stern
- Days and Nights in the East: From the Original Notes of a Recent Traveler Through Egypt, Arabia-Petra, Syria, Turkey and Greece (London: T. C. Newby, 1845), ed. by Matilda Plumley (HTML with map at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Diary of A Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and The Holy Land (2 volumes; London: Henry Colburn, 1841), by Mary Georgiana Emma Seymour Dawson Damer
- Eastern Life, Present and Past (Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1848), by Harriet Martineau
- Eastern Pilgrims: The Travels of Three Ladies (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870), by Agnes Smith Lewis
- Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines, Including a Visit to Palmyra (new edition; London: Macmillan and co., 1874), by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford
- Eine Moderne Kreuzfahrt (in German; Weinheim: Fr. Ackermann, ca. 1898), by Adam Karrillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Eothen, by Alexander William Kinglake (Gutenberg text)
- Flying Leaves From East and West (London: Field and Tuer; et al., 1885), by Emily Pfeiffer
- The Lands of the Saracen: or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain (20th edition; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1863), by Bayard Taylor
- Letters from the East by Henry James Ross, 1837-1857 (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1902), by Henry James Ross, ed. by Janet Ross (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Letters of a German Countess: Written During Her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, Syria, Nubia, &c. in 1843-4 (3 volumes in 1; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Ida Hahn-Hahn (page images at JISC)
- Mainly East (in Prose, Perhaps Prosey) (London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1922), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie
- Notes From a Private Journal of a Visit to Egypt and Palestine, By Way of Italy and the Mediterranean (second edition; London: Printed by Wertheimer, Lea, and Co., 1885), by Judith Cohen Montefiore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, by William Makepeace Thackeray (Gutenberg text)
- Oriental Harems and Scenery (New York: Carleton, 1862), by Cristina Belgioioso
- Orientalische Briefe (3 volumes in German; Berlin: A. Duncker, 1844), by Ida Hahn-Hahn (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sunshine and Storm in the East: or, Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1880), by Annie Brassey, illust. by A. Y. Bingham
- Tent and Harem: Notes of an Oriental Trip (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1859), by Caroline Paine (page images at Google)
- Travels of Lady Hester Stanhope; Forming the Completion of Her Memoirs, Narrated by Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1846), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon
- Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy (second edition; London: Ingram Cooke and Co., 1853), by Ida Pfeiffer, trans. by H. W. Dulcken (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Voyage de Bagdad à Alep (1808) (in French; Paris: J. André, 1899), by Jean Baptiste Louis Jacques Rousseau, ed. by Louis Poinssot
- Yusef, or, The Journey of the Frangi: A Crusade in the East (New York: Harper and Bros., 1853), by J. Ross Browne
- Chow-Chow: Being Selections from a Journal Kept in India, Egypt, and Syria (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), by Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Colored Man Round the World: By a Quadroon (printed for the author, 1858), by David F. Dorr
- A Girl's Journey Through Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land (Nashville: Printed for the author, 1889), by Lenamay Green (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Holiday Letters from Athens, Cairo, and Weimar (London: Strahan and Co., 1873), by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Co., et al., 1869), by Mark Twain
- Journal of a Visit to Egypt, Constantinople, the Crimea, Greece, &c., in the Suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869), by Catharina Therése Lovisa Fredrika Elisabeth von Stedingk Grey Fouché (multiple formats at Google)
- Lands of the Bible: A Geographical and Topographical Description of Palestine, with Letters of Travel in Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece (Philadelpha: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1881), by J. W. McGarvey (illustrated HTML at biblestudyguide.org)
- Lands of the Bible: A Geographical and Topographical Description of Palestine, with Letters of Travel in Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor, and Greece (Cincinnati: The Standard Publishing Company, ca. 1895), by J. W. McGarvey (illustrated HTML at dabar.org)
- An Overland Trek From India, by Side-Saddle, Camel, and Rail: The Record of a Journey from Baluchistan to Europe (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1909), by Edith Fraser Benn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Pilgrimage to The Holy Land: Comprising Recollections, Sketches, and Reflections, Made During a Tour in the East (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co.; Philadelphia: G. S. Appleton, 1848), by Alphonse de Lamartine
- Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el Origen, Descendencia, y Succession de los Reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de un Viage Hecho por el Mismo Autor Dende la India Oriental Hasta Italia por Tierra (in Spanish; Antwerp: H. Verdussen, 1610), by Pedro Teixeira, contrib. by Muḥammad ibn Khāvandshāh Mīr Khvānd and Turan Shah ibn Qutb al-Din (page images at HathiTrust)
- Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life, Selected From the Journals of Marianne North, Chiefly Between the Years 1859 and 1869 (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893), by Marianne North, ed. by Janet Catherine North Symonds (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Then I Was Guided, by Muhammad Tijani Samawi (HTML at al-islam.org)
- The Travels of Pedro Teixeira; With His "Kings of Harmuz" and Extracts From His "Kings of Persia" (Hakluyt Society works, second series, #9; 1902), by Pedro Teixeira, ed. by William F. Sinclair and Donald Ferguson, contrib. by John Stevens
- Turquie d'Europe et d'Asie (de Salonique à Jérusalem) (in French; Paris: Laurens, ca. 1899), by Marius Bernard, illust. by Henri Avelot
- When Turkey was Turkey: In and Around Constantinople (London, G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and co., 1921), by Mary A. Poynter, contrib. by Edwin Pears (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of a Journey Overland From England, by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India: Including a Residence There, and Voyage Home, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by Anne Elwood
- Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, As Related by Herself in Conversations With Her Physician (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1845), by Hester Stanhope, ed. by Charles Lewis Meryon (page images at HathiTrust)
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