A collection of old travelogues, those precious accounts of what world, travel and travel-writing used to be like in different epochs. Reading vintage travelogues is as close as one can get to time travel, without the pain of inventing the real time-machine and the risk of bumping into yourself along the way.
This is our selection of some of the finest travelogues dug out from our travel library. Sit back and let the intrepid explorers from the past take you on a ride around the ever-changing world.
Sumatra
Now we are carefree, tender and airy.
Let us think: how quiet are, the snowy
peaks of the Urals.
If we get sad over a pale figure,
whom we have lost on some evening,
we know that,...
Then we had had rain water; but here there was not a single source that could be turned to account. With unutterable regret our eyes rested on the...
As we're soon leaving for Istanbul, here's a couple of old postcards, photos and maps showing various scenes and moments from the life of the city....
A member of our club has dug out a huge book titled "Wonders of the World" from 1912, and was kind enough to scan all the photos. For all we know,...
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron (born 1939) is a British novelist and travel writer. In 1983 he published a book called "Among the Russians", as an...
An extract from a letter that Lord Gordon Byron sent to his mother while traveling around the Balkans, in the times of the Ottoman Empire, relating...
A sermon that Francis Owen, a British missionary stationed in Natal, delivered to the Zulu king Dingaan and his people in the early 19th century....
A short travel story by Geoffrey Gorer (1905-1985), an English anthropologist and writer. He visited West Africa in 1934, in order to study...