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50 public-domain travel writing books, summarised. Page 2 of 2.

Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water: The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America

Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

A world tour taken at the height of Victoria’s reign captures the physical scale of an expanding global order while recording the everyday friction, beauty, and culture shock of long-distance Victorian travel.

Travel Writing8 min read

Views A-foot

Bayard Taylor

A young American printer sets off across Europe with five hundred dollars earned along the way, traversing historic landscapes on foot with only a knapsack and staff.

Travel Writing7 min read