Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature

This is a travel diary describing Constantinople. The author includes an appendix with travel tips, including his exact expenses for each day--travel, food, courier, etc.--and advice on what helpful items to carry, specific people to hire, routes to take, where to buy clothes, etc. The remainder contains anecdotes similar to those found in other British traveler diaries.

The second volume of a travel narrative describing the 1881 summer travel of Cox, the author traveled here through the Ottoman Empire, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Egypt; the cities include Constantinople, Beirut, Ephesus, Damascus, Jaffa (now part of Tel Aviv), Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Cairo.

Produced as documentation of his mission work and inspiration for others, this book contains an original map of the areas visited and diary-like entries. However, the ultimate purpose was to aid other missionaries in learning about and recognizing customs and people, so the writing sometimes reads like reporting. The first volume of the series covers the author's journey through Turkey and Persia. The introduction provides some selected translations of the Koran and explanations of Islam.

"In introducing this book to the reader, little need be said. It is nothing more than what it pretends to be - a Personal Narrative of Exploration. It does not claim to be a book on Morocco, and consequently may appear in many respects to be very defective. To write such a book was originally my ambition when I turned my attention to that remarkable country, but the abrupt and premature conclusion of my travels has made me perforce alter my intention, and devote myself to recording only something of what we saw and experienced in the parts in which we travelled. It has, moreover, been as much my object to sketch pictures as to chronicle facts. For the same reason this book has been made a personal narrative, with its inevitable frequent use of the first person singular or plural"--Preface.

A diary style narrative of an exploration of Somalia. PDF (firstfootstepsin01burtuoft.pdf) is Vol. 6 of 1894 memorial edition--Vol. 1 of 2 of An exploration of Harar

Account of a journey through France, from Calais to Vienne, on a two-person tricycle.

Twain's letters about his steamship voyage of 1867.

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

An account of author's trading voyage to South America in his bark "Aquidneck", of her loss leaving harbor in Brazil, of author's building there of the "Liberdade", a 35 foot junk rigged vessel, and of sailing her back to the United States.