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The Land Beyond The Forest
Novelist Emily Gerard (1849–1905) went with her husband, an officer in the Austrian army, to Transylvania for two years in 1883. Then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today a …
Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa in the Seventeenth Century
This two-volume English translation of part of a longer travel narrative by the Ottoman aristocrat Evilya Çelebi (1611–c.1680) was translated by the Austrian scholar Joseph von …
The Alps from End to End
During a life of many and varied interests, the art historian and mountaineer William Martin Conway (1856–1927) served as a professor of art at Liverpool and Cambridge, a member of …
Travels in Spain and the East, 1808–1810
The son of Erasmus Darwin and uncle of Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin lived a mostly quiet life as a doctor in Lichfield, taking early retirement to a remote part of Derbyshire. As …
Arthur Young's Travels in France
This work was first published in 1793 by the agricultural expert Arthur Young (1741–1820). In addition to farming, he describes the scenery, roads, inns, manners, and - more …
Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, etc.
Sir Henry Holland (1788–1873) was a passionate and intrepid traveller from a young age. In addition to a distinguished career as court physician - first to Caroline of Brunswick, …
Through Spain to the Sahara
Journalist, children's author and translator, Matilda Betham-Edwards inspired a generation of writers. A correspondent of Henry James and a friend of George Eliot, she belonged to …
Peloponnesus
William George Clark (1821–78) is probably best remembered as the co-editor (with W. Aldis Wright) of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1863–6; also reissued in this series). A fellow of …
A Narrative of Three Years' Residence in France, Principally in the Southern Departments, from the Year 1802 to 1805
The writer and translator Anne Plumptre (1760–1818) and her sister Annabella, also a writer, divided their time between Norwich and London, where they moved in radical and …
A Hand-book for Travellers in Spain, and Readers at Home
Targeted at both intrepid travellers and 'readers at home', this two-volume account of Spanish history, topography and culture by Richard Ford (1796–1858) combines the rigour of a …
Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight
This two-volume Autobiography by Cornelia Knight (1757–1837) was published in 1861. It was complied by the military historian Sir John Kaye from her journals and a memoir based on …
A Spinster’s Tour in France, the States of Genoa, etc., during the Year 1827
The romantic novelist Elizabeth Strutt (1783–c.1863) was ideally suited to the task she set herself when, in 1827, she wrote A Spinster's Tour in France (1828). Although she …