James John Hissey

James John Hissey was an English travel writer active from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth. His surviving bibliographic record shows a long run of books about journeys through England, including A Holiday on the Road, On Southern English Roads, Through Ten English Counties, Over Fen and Wold, Untravelled England, and A Leisurely Tour in England. The pattern of those titles suggests a writer deeply drawn to the character of local roads, rural landscapes, and the slower pleasures of seeing a country at close range.

Some sources also describe him as an artist, and that fits the tone associated with his travel writing: attentive to scenery, atmosphere, and small details rather than just famous sights. He is generally listed as having been born in 1847 and dying in 1921.

A confirmed modern portrait was not readily available from the sources checked, so no profile image is included here.