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Set out across rivers, coasts, kingdoms, and continents in a collection where every mile holds a new wonder. From Mark Twain’s wry wanderings to grand voyages around the globe and vivid encounters in Persia, Africa, Spain, and the far North, these travel tales turn the world into a stage of danger, discovery, and delight. Open a book, and the journey begins before the horizon can catch its breath.

by Friedrich Gerstäcker

by Richard Ligon

by Guido Gozzano

by Carl Ethan Akeley

by Hilaire Belloc

by John L. Stephens

by Frances Milton Trollope

by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

by John L. Stephens

by John McDouall Stuart

by Nancy Prince

by active 12th century of Tudela Benjamin

by Gérard de Nerval

by David Wynford Carnegie

by Alfred Russel Wallace

by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

by James Bruce

by W. C. Morrow, Edward Cucuel

by Ralph Waldo Emerson

by William Dampier

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by Harry Alverson Franck

by Henry James

by Cambrensis Giraldus

by Harriet Martineau

by Truman Everts

by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield

by Lady Maria Callcott

by Lady Hester Stanhope

by Richard Hakluyt

by Alain Gerbault

by Henry Walter Bates

by C. G. (Carl Georg) Schillings

by Mary Gaunt

by Sir Richard Francis Burton

by George Whitfield Ray

by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls

by Edmondo De Amicis

by Edmondo De Amicis

by Dallas Lore Sharp

by Nathaniel Pitt Langford

by Jack Lait, Lee Mortimer

by George Wharton James

by George Sand

by Alexander von Humboldt

by Arthur Achleitner

by Mina Hubbard

by James Cook

by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

by Adriaan van der Willigen

by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

by F. (Friedrich) Höhne

by Charles Dickens

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

by François Crastre

by Various Authors

by Elisée Reclus

by T. (Tobias) Smollett

by Clare Howard

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

by Ferdinand Gregorovius

by Octave Mirbeau

by Visconde de João Batista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett Almeida Garrett

by Sven Anders Hedin

by Fridtjof Nansen

by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

by John Wesley Powell

by Edward Whymper

by Richard Hakluyt

by Karl Philipp Moritz

by George Borrow

by Gerhard Rohlfs

by Elias Haffter

by Joaquim Carlos Paiva de Andrada

by Mark Twain

by Rudyard Kipling

by Theodore Roosevelt

by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

by Various Authors

by Lafcadio Hearn

by Douglas William Freshfield

by Edith Wharton

by Stephen Halsey Matteson

by Anne Grenfell, Katie Spalding