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Mandeville's Travels. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, commonly known as Mandeville's Travels, is a book written between 1357 and 1371 that purports to be the travel memoir of an Englishman named Sir John Mandeville across the Islamic world as far as India and China. The earliest-surviving text is in French, followed by translations into ...
Travels is a 1988 nonfiction book by Michael Crichton that details how he abandoned his medical education at Harvard Medical School, moved to Los Angeles, and began his professional writing career with The Great Train Robbery (1975). After this book became a movie starring Sean Connery, Crichton undertook a variety of international adventures ...
978-0060-9595-55. OCLC. 48168396. A Walk Across America is a nonfiction travel book first published in 1979. It was the first book written by travel author Peter Jenkins, with support from the National Geographic Society. The book depicts his journey from Alfred, New York, to New Orleans, Louisiana. While on his journey of self-discovery, he ...
Northern France, from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, excluding Paris and its Environs, Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1889, OCLC 02711578. Norway and Sweden (4th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1889, OCLC 02383830. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance (11th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1889, OCLC 04250198.
1936–1966. The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded by Victor Hugo Green, an African American, New York City postal worker who published it annually from 1936 to 1966. This was during the era of Jim Crow laws, when open and often ...
The first Let's Go guide was a 25-page mimeographed pamphlet put together by 18-year-old Harvard freshman Oliver Koppell and handed out on student charter flights to Europe. In 1996, Let's Go launched its website, Letsgo.com, while publishing 22 titles and a new line of mini map guides. Let's Go announced a new print publisher, Avalon Travel ...
Leigh Fermor's book almost never mentions his travelling companions, and only rarely delves into first-person experiences. Much of the book concentrates on the history of the Maniots and of their larger place in Greek and European history; the middle portion of the book contains lengthy digressions on art history, icons , religion, and myth in ...
Bartram's. Travels. Title page of Bartram's Travels with frontispiece "Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior". Bartram's Travels is the short title of naturalist William Bartram 's book describing his travels in the American South and encounters with American Indians between 1773 and 1777. The book was published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1791 by ...