James John Hissey

James John Hissey was an English travel writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, born in 1847 and died in 1921. His books are closely associated with leisurely travel by road, and surviving bibliographic records show titles such as A Drive Through England, A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties, On the Box Seat, Through Ten English Counties, An English Holiday with Car and Camera, and A Leisurely Tour in England.

Hissey wrote in a relaxed, curious way that favored the pleasures of the journey over speed. His published works also make clear that he contributed his own drawings and, in some later books, photographs, which helps explain why his travel writing often feels both descriptive and companionable.

Some modern references describe him as a British travel writer and illustrator, and records connected with Trevin Towers in Eastbourne identify him as the travel writer for whom the house was built in 1894. Taken together, these sources suggest a writer deeply attached to the English road, landscape, and the slower rhythms of travel.