A Traveller's Year: 365 Days of Travel Writing in Diaries, Journals and Letters

by Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison

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A Traveller's Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for each day of the year, on the subject of travel and exploration. The extracts convey men and women's experiences of travel and discovery from the sixteenth to the early twenty-first centuries, with an emphasis on the period 1750-1950, the classic era of both European exploration and diary-writing. The authors of the pieces range from famous explorers such as Captains Cook and Scott to modern travel writers journeying through the contemporary world, from people who pushed back the boundaries of geographical knowledge to...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781781012017
  • Publish Date 1 October 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Frances Lincoln Ebooks
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 512
  • Language English