Click on any of the links below to go to the travel guides. (Scroll down to see all the books for the different continents)

Happy Travel Reading Today!

We pride ourselves on making the site as user friendly as possible with numerous innovations designed to make your travel reading experience as easy and pleasurable as possible. These include:

1/ The ability to go straight to any page within the book.
2/ The ability to go straight to the first or last page in the book with one click.
3/ The ability to choose how many words you want on each page. For each of our books you can choose between viewing 250, 500 or 1000 words on each page.
4/ If you decide when reading the book that you would like more or less words and click on one of the other word options then it will take you to the same place in the book!
5/ Want to know how many words are in a particular book? We tell you the exact word count. And the number of pages so that you can plan your reading to suit your lifestyle. Read a couple of pages today and then come back tomorrow and read some more! You choose what works for you.
6/ The books are conveniently arranged by continent. So that you can immediately read about the places that you are most interested in.

We have listed a simple link below to each of the books above for your convenience. These go to page 1 of the 250 word version of each of the travel books arranged by continent. If you click on any of the continent links to the right then we provide fuller information for each book, including number of pages, word count, and links to the 250, 500 and 1000 word version of each book. (You can also access this information on any page of the books!)

We Look Forward To Seeing You Return Often To Absorb These Great Travel Books. Because The Wisdom and Knowledge They Teach Is Truly Timeless!

AFRICA - 29 Travel Books

1/ In The Heart Of Africa By Sir Samuel W. Baker
2/ Ismailia - A Narrative Of The Expedition To Central Africa By Sir Samuel W. Baker
3/ The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia And The Sword Hunters Of The Hamran Arabs By Sir Samuel W. Baker
4/ First Footsteps In East Africa; Or, An Exploration Of Harar. By Richard F. Burton
5/ Letters From The Cape By Lady Duff Gordon
6/ An Account Of Egypt By Herodotus
7/ The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens
8/ Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa By David Livingstone
9/ A Popular Account Of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition To The Zambesi By David Livingston
10/ A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo
11/ Egypt (La Mort De Philae) by Pierre Loti
12/ The Man-Eaters Of Tsavo And Other East African Adventures By Lieut Col. J. H. Patterson, D.S.O.
13/ The Discovery of The Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
14/ How I Found Livingstone Travels, Adventures And Discoveries In Central Africa Including Four Months Residence With Dr. Livingstone By Sir Henry M. Stanley
15/ Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray
16/ The Land Of Footprints By Stewart Edward White
17/ The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile And Explorations of the Nile Sources by Sir Samuel W. Baker
18/ A Narrative Of Captivity In Abyssinia With Some Account Of The Late Emperor Theodore, His Country And People By Henry Blanc
19/ The River War - An Account Of The Reconquest Of The Sudan By Winston S. Churchill
20/ The Great Boer War By Arthur Conan Doyle
21/ Travels In The Interior Of Africa - Volume 1 of 2 - By Mungo Park
22/ Travels In The Interior Of Africa - Volume 2 of 2 - By Mungo Park
23/ Travels Through The Empire Of Morocco By John Buffa
24/ Life And Travels Of Mungo Park By Mungo Park With A Full Narrative Of Subsequent Adventure In Central Africa
25/ Travels In Morocco - Volume 1 of 2 - By James Richardson
26/ Travels In Morocco - Volume 2 of 2 - By James Richardson
27/ Travels Of Richard And John Lander Into The Interior Of Africa For The Discovery Of The Course And Termination Of The Niger By Robert Huish
28/ Travels in West Africa (Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons) by Mary H. Kingsley
29/ Notes Of An Overland Journey Through France And Egypt To Bombay By The Late Miss Emma Roberts

ASIA - 27 Travel Books

1/ Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Samuel White Baker
2/ Cyprus, As I Saw It In 1879 By Sir Samuel White Baker
3/ The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon Sir Samuel White Baker
4/ Among The Tibetans By Isabella L. Bird
5/ The Golden Chersonese And The Way Thither By Isabella L. Bird
6/ Unbeaten Tracks In Japan By Isabella L. Bird
7/ From The Caves And Jungles Of Hindostan Translated From The Russian Of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
8/ Travels In Arabia - Comprehending - An Account Of Those Territories In Hedjaz Which The Mohammedans Regard As Sacred. By The Late John Lewis Burckhardt
9/ Travels In Syria And The Holy Land By John Lewis Burckhardt
10/ Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To Al-Madinah & Meccah - Volume 1 of 2 - By Captain Sir Richard F. Burton
11/ Personal Narrative Of A Pilgrimage To Al-Madinah & Meccah - Volume 2 of 2 - By Captain Sir Richard F. Burton
12/ The Chinese Classics By James Legge
13/ A Record Of Buddhistic Kingdoms - Being An Account By The Chinese Monk Fa-hien Of His Travels In India And Ceylon (a.d. 399-414) By James Legge
14/ My Three Days In Gilead By Elmer U. Hoenshel
15/ Eothen By A. W. Kingslake
16/ Diary Of A Pedestrian In Cashmere And Thibet By William Henry Knight
17/ Through Central Borneo An Account Of Two Years' Travel In The Land Of The Head-Hunters Between The Years 1913 And 1917 By Carl Lumholtz
18/ The Travels Of Sir John Mandeville By Sir John Mandeville
19/ The Malay Archipelago - Volume I - A Narrative Of Travel By Alfred Russel Wallace.
20/ The Malay Archipelago - Volume 2 - A Narrative Of Travel By Alfred Russel Wallace.
21/ Notes Of A War Correspondent By Richard Harding Davis
22/ China By Demetrius Charles Boulger
23/ A Ride To India Across Persia And Baluchistan By Harry De Windt
24/ The Travels Of Marco Polo - Volume 1 Of 2 By Marco Polo And Rustichello Of Pisa
25/ The Travels Of Marco Polo - Volume 2 Of 2 By Marco Polo And Rustichello Of Pisa
26/ A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 8 - By Robert Kerr
27/ A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 9 - By Robert Kerr

EUROPE - 59 Travel Books

1/ Letters From England 1846-1849 By Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
2/ The Path to Rome By Hilaire Belloc
3/ Drake's Great Armada By Captain Walter Biggs
4/ The Bible In Spain By George Borrow
5/ Wild Wales: Its People, Language And Scenery By George Borrow
6/ Alps And Sanctuaries Of Piedmont And The Canton Ticino By Samuel Butler
7/ The Description Of Wales By Geraldus Cambrensis
8/ The Itinerary Of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales By Giraldus Cambrensis
9/ Europe Revised By Irvin S. Cobb
10/ From London To Land's End By Daniel Defoe
11/ Tour Through The Eastern Counties Of England, 1722 By Daniel Defoe
12/ Pictures From Italy By Charles Dickens
13/ Alone By Norman Douglas
14/ Old Calabria By Norman Douglas
15/ Letters From High Latitudes By Lord Dufferin
16/ By The Ionian Sea Notes Of A Ramble In Southern Italy By George Gissing
17/ Northern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 1 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
18/ Eastern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 2 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
19/ North Eastern Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 3 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
20/ Europe - The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques And Discoveries Of The English Nation - Volume 4 - Collected By Richard Hakluyt
21/ Voyager's Tales By Richard Hakluyt
22/ Voyages In Search Of The North-west Passage By Richard Hakluyt
23/ Castilian Days, By John Hay
24/ Familiar Spanish Travels, By W. D. Howells
25/ Roman Holidays And Others, By W. D. Howells
26/ Afoot In England, By W.H. Hudson
27/ A Little Tour In France, By Henry James
28/ Field And Hedgerow By Richard Jefferies
29/ Diary Of A Pilgrimage By Jerome K. Jerome
30/ Three Men In A Boat By Jerome K. Jerome
31/ Journey To The Western Isles Of Scotland By Samuel Johnson
32/ The Letters Of "Norah" On Her Tour Through Ireland By Margaret Dixon Mcdougall
33/ Travels In England In 1782 By Charles P. Moritz
34/ Beautiful Europe - Belgium By Joseph E. Morris
35/ A Visit To Iceland And The Scandinavian North By Madame Ida Pfeiffer
36/ Travels Through France And Italy By Tobias Smollett
37/ A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy By Laurence Sterne
38/ Essays Of Travel, By Robert Louis Stevenson
39/ Travels With A Donkey In The Cevennes By Robert Louis Stevenson
40/ Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands - Volume 2 - By Harriet Beecher Stowe
41/ The Aran Islands By John M. Synge
42/ A Tramp Abroad By Mark Twain
43/ Penelope's English Experiences Being Extracts From The Commonplace Book Of Penelope Hamilton By Kate Douglas Wiggin.
44/ Letters On Sweden, Norway, And Denmark By Mary Wollstonecraft
45/ London In 1731, By Don Manoel Gonzales
46/ Travels In England And Fragmenta Regalia By Paul Hentzner And Sir Robert Naunton
47/ Letters Of Franz Liszt, Volume 1, "From Paris To Rome: Years Of Travel As A Virtuoso" By Franz Liszt
48/ English Travellers Of The Renaissance By Clare Howard
49/ After Waterloo: Reminiscences Of European Travel 1815-1819, By Major W. E Frye
50/ General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 - By Robert Kerr
51/ Letters Of A Traveller, By William Cullen Bryant
52/ Travellers' Stories, By Eliza Lee Follen
53/ Tales Of A Traveller, By Washington Irving
54/ A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 1 - By Robert Kerr
55/ A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 2 - By Robert Kerr
56/ A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume X - By Robert Kerr
57/ A Traveller In Little Things, By W. H. Hudson
58/ The Fortunate Foundlings, By Eliza Fowler Haywood
59/ Pomona's Travels, By Frank R. Stockton

NORTH AMERICA - 57 Travel Books

1/ Minnesota And Dacotah By C.C. Andrews
2/ The Land Of Little Rain By Mary Austin
3/ A Tramp Through The Bret Harte Country By Thomas Dykes Beasley
4/ The Englishwoman In America By Isabella Lucy Bird
5/ A Lady's Life In The Rocky Mountains By Isabella L. Bird
6/ Voyage Of The Paper Canoe, By N. H. Bishop
7/ The Adventures Of Captain Bonneville By Washington Irving
8/ First Across The Continent The Story Of The Exploring Expedition Of Lewis And Clark In 1804/5/6 By Noah Brooks
9/ Over The Border Acadia The Home Of "Evangeline" By Eliza Chase
10/ Tracks Of A Rolling Stone By Henry J. Coke
11/ Two Years Before The Mast A Personal Narrative Of Life At Sea By Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
12/ Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage To Newfoundland By Edward Hayes
13/ A Lady's Life On A Farm In Manitoba By Mrs. Cecil Hall
14/ A Briefe And True Report Of The New Found Land Of Virginia, By Thomas Hariot
15/ A Start In Life - A Journey Across America - Fruit Farming In California By C.F. Dowsett
16/ Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804 - Volume 1 - By Alexander Von Humboldt And Aime Bonpland.
17/ Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804 - Volume 2 - By Alexander Von Humboldt And Aime Bonpland.
18/ Personal Narrative Of Travels To The Equinoctial Regions Of America During The Years 1799-1804 - Volume 3 - By Alexander Von Humboldt And Aime Bonpland.
19/ Astoria; Or, Anecdotes Of An Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains By Washington Irving
20/ The City That Was - A Requiem Of Old San Francisco By Will Irwin
21/ The Grand Canyon Of Arizona: How To See It By George Wharton James
22/ California And The Californians By David Starr Jordan
23/ American Notes By Rudyard Kipling
24/ A New Voyage To Carolina, By John Lawson
25/ Picturesque Quebec, By James Macpherson Le Moine
26/ Roughing It In The Bush, By Susanna Moodie
27/ Steep Trails - California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon By John Muir
28/ Travels In Alaska By John Muir
29/ Arizona Sketches By Joseph A. Munk
30/ The Oregon Trail By Francis Parkman, Jr.
31/ The British Association's Visit To Montreal, 1884: Letters, By Clara Rayleigh
32/ Army Letters From An Officer's Wife, 1871-1888, By Frances M.A. Roe
33/ The Arctic Prairies By Ernest Thompson Seton
34/ Letters From An American Farmer By Hector St. John De Crevecoeur
35/ Vanished Arizona, Recollections Of The Army Life By A New England Woman By Martha Summerhayes
36/ A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers By Henry David Thoreau
37/ North America - Volume 1 By Anthony Trollope
38/ North America - Volume 2 By Anthony Trollope
39/ Life On The Mississippi By Mark Twain
40/ Baddeck And That Sort Of Thing By Charles Dudley Warner
41/ How Spring Came In New England By Charles Dudley Warner
42/ In The Wilderness By Charles Dudley Warner
43/ On Horseback By Charles Dudley Warner
44/ Canada And The States Recollections 1851 To 1886 By Sir E. W. Watkin
45/ The Mayflower And Her Log, Complete, By Azel Ames
46/ The March Of Portola And The Discovery Of The Bay Of San Francisco By Zoeth S. Eldredge
47/ Voyages Of Peter Esprit Radisson By Peter Esprit Radisson
48/ Marco Paul's Voyages & Travels: Vermont By Jacob Abbott
49/ An Englishman's Travels In America: His Observations Of Life And Manners In The Free And Slave States - 1857 - By J. Benwell.
50/ Travels In The United States Of America; Commencing In The Year 1793, And Ending In 1797. With The Author's Journals Of His Two Voyages Across The Atlantic By William Priest
51/ A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador An Account Of The Exploration Of The Nascaupee And George Rivers By Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior
52/ See America First, By Orville O. Hiestand
53/ Letters Of Travel (1892-1913) By Rudyard Kipling
54/ A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 3 - By Robert Kerr
55/ A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 6 - By Robert Kerr
56/ Journey In Search Of The Red Indians In Newfoundland By W. E. Cormack
57/ The Journey to the Polar Sea, by John Franklin

OCEANIA - 23 Travel Books

1/ The Hawaiian Archipelago - Six Months Among The Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, And Volcanoes Of The Sandwich Islands By Isabella L. Bird
2/ Samuel Butler's Canterbury Pieces By Samuel Butler
3/ A First Year In Canterbury Settlement By Samuel Butler
4/ Spinifex And Sand Pioneering And Exploration In Western Australia By David W Carnegie
5/ A Lady's Visit To The Gold Diggings Of Australia In 1852-53 By Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy
6/ We Of The Never-Never By Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn
7/ Journal Of An Overland Expedition In Australia, By Ludwig Leichhardt
8/ The Cruise Of The Snark, By Jack London
9/ Omoo By Herman Melville
10/ Laperouse, By Ernest Scott
11/ The Settlement At Port Jackson, By Watkin Tench
12/ A Narrative Of The Expedition To Botany Bay By Watkin Tench
13/ Wanderings Among South Sea Savages And In Borneo And The Philippines By H. Wilfrid Walker
14/ Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound In The Years 1840-1: Sent By The Colonists Of South Australia By Eyre, Edward John
15/ New Zealand - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 14 - By Robert Kerr
16/ Narrative Of The Overland Expedition Of The Messrs. Jardine, From Rockhampton To Cape York, Northern Queensland By Frank Jardine And Alexander Jardine
17/ Australia Twice Traversed - The Romance Of Exploration, Through Central South Australia, And Western Australia, From 1872 To 1876 By Ernest Giles
18/ The Logbooks Of The Lady Nelson, By Ida Lee
19/ Journals Of Two Expeditions Into The Interior Of New South Wales, 1817-18 - By John Oxley
20/ The Eureka Stockade By Raffaello Carboni
21/ Early Australian Voyages By John Pinkerton
22/ Terre Napoleon. A History Of French Explorations And Projects In Australia By Ernest Scott
23/ Australian Search Party - A Record Of Discovery, Geography, And Adventure By Charles Henry Eden

SOUTH AMERICA - 8 Travel Books

1/ The Voyage Of The Beagle By Charles Darwin
2/ A Little Journey To Puerto Rico By Marian M. George
3/ Far Away And Long Ago A History Of My Early Life By W. H. Hudson
4/ The Famous Voyage Of Sir Francis Drake Into The South Sea, And Therehence About The Whole Globe Of The Earth, Begun In The Year Of Our Lord 1577 Narrative By Francis Pretty
5/ Through Five Republics On Horseback Being An Account Of Many Wanderings In South America By G. Whitfield Ray
6/ Mexico - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 4 - By Robert Kerr
7/ South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
8/ A Woman's Journey Round The World, From Vienna To Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia, And Asia Minor By Ida Pfeiffer