18 books like Michelin Green Guide (Green Tourist Guides)
The Lands of the Saracen
This volume comprises the second portion of a series of travels. This work includes author's adventure travels in Palestine, Syria, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain.
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Journey Without Maps
This is an account of a trip Graham Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and…
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Let's Go 2003
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Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia
An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic.
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The art of travel
First published in 1872. Lavishly illustrated.Everything you would need to mount an expedition into exotic territory in Victorian time. Great for research for historical novels. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Francis Galton (16 February 1822 – 17 January 1911), cousin of Douglas Strutt Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, was an English Victorian polymath: anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical…
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The Long Haul
A family road trip is supposed to be a lot of fun... Unless, of course, you’re the Heffleys. The journey starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns. Gas station bathrooms, crazed seagulls, a fender bender, and a runaway pig — not exactly Greg Heffley’s idea of a good time. But even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure — and this is one the Heffleys won’t soon…
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Wallpaper City Guide
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The Bean Trees Anniversary Edition
Taylor, a poor Kentuckian making her way west with an abandoned baby girl, stops in Tucson where she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.
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Queer places
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Views a-foot: or, Europe seen with a knapsack and staff
This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience,
this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform.
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Le Rhin
Dans ces pages de voyage, Victor Hugo fait du Rhin et de ses villes un vaste livre de pierre, où Mayence, Cologne, Francfort, Worms et Rome révèlent les combats du temps, de l'histoire et de la modernité. L'arrivée par le chemin de fer, la douceur des paysages rhénans, les cathédrales, les cloîtres, les tombeaux et les ruines composent une méditation à la fois savante, lyrique et indignée sur la…
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Bitter lemons
With the publication of Justine Lawrence Durrell became, almost overnight, one of the most talked about, widely acclaimed novelists of the decade. Now, in Bitter Lemons, his focus has shifted from the world of his imagination to life itself. Writing in the exquisite poetic prose that critics have hailed as unequalled in contemporary literature, he tells the perceptive, often humorous story of his…
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The heart of a continent
Replica of 1896 edition by John Murray, London.
Oversize maps are available as a free download. 
John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – Oxford, 16 February 1940) was a British traveller, scholar and journalist, 
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is remembered…
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Palmetto-leaves
After the Civil War, the Stowes bought a house on the St. Johns River near Mandarin, Florida. For several years, they spent the winters at their Florida home. In 1872, Stowe published Pametto Leaves describing the area, its people and wildlife. The book is organized as a series of articles and includes several ink sketches. It provides a unique view of north Florida and may have influenced Henry…
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Autobiography of Lutfullah
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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China Road
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal…
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Annapurna-conquest of the first 8000 metre peak
One of the great works of mountaineering literature- long out of print and now reissued with a new introduction by Joe Simpson.The enthralling account, by the leader of the French expedition, of the first conquest of Annapurna - at that time, and at more than 8000 metres, the highest mountain ever climbed. It is a story of breathtaking courage and determination against appalling odds. In records…
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Our Old Home
Our Old Home, a series of English sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This volume of charming sketches was published in 1863, and (in the words of the author) presents “a few of the external aspects of English scenery and life, especially those that are touched with the antique charm to which our countrymen are more susceptible than are the people among whom it is of native growth.”
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