Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives

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Joseph Addison
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy (travel narrative) 1705

Thomas Astley
A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels (collected travel narratives) 1746

Frederick Calvert Baltimore
A Tour to the East (travel narrative) 1767

Giuseppe Baretti
A Journey from London to Genoa (travel narrative) 1770

William Beckford
Dreams, Waking Thoughts and Incidents (travel narrative) 1783

Daniel Beeckman
Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo (travel narrative) 1718

Angela de Boccage
Letters Concerning England, Holland, and Italy (travel narrative) 1762

Baron Inigo Born
Travels through the Bannat of Temeswar (travel narrative) 1774

James Boswell
An Account of Corsica (travel narrative) 1768

Patrick Brydone
A Tour through Sicily and Malta (travel narrative) 1771

Andrew Burnaby
Travels through the Middle Settlements in North America (travel narrative) 1775

Dimitrie Cantemir
The History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire (travel narrative) 1714-16

Richard Chandler
Travels in Asia Minor (travel narrative) 1775

John Cook
Voyages and Travels Through the Russian Empire (travel narrative) 1770

Elizabeth Craven
A Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople (travel narrative) 1789

William Dalrymple
Travels through Spain and Portugal (travel narrative) 1777

Daniel Defoe
A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (travel narrative) 1724-27

Alexander Drummond
Travels through Different Cities (travel narrative) 1754

Henry Ellis
Voyage to Hudson's-Bay (travel narrative) 1748

Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (travel narrative) 1789

Anna Maria Falconbridge
Two Voyages to Sierra Leone (travel narrative) 1794

John Ferrar
Tour from Dublin to London (travel narrative) 1796

Henry Fielding
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (travel narrative) 1755

William Gilpin
Observations on the River Wye (travel narrative) 1782
Observations on the Western Parts of England (travel narrative) 1798

John Green
Journey from Aleppo to Damascus (travel narrative) 1736

John Henry Grose
A Voyage to the East Indies (travel narrative) 1757

Jonas Hanway
A Journal of Eight Days from Portsmouth (chronicle) 1757

Mary Hanway
A Journey to the Highlands of Scotland (travel narrative) 1777

John Hawkesworth
An Account of the Voyages … in the Southern Hemisphere (travel narrative) 1773

Munshi Isma'il
Ta'rix-e jadid (travel narrative) 1773

Mirza I'tisam ud Din
Sigarf-nama-e Vilayat [translated as Wonder Book of England] (travel narrative) 1785

Samuel Johnson
The History of Rasselas, the Prince of Abissinia, a Tale (travel narrative) 1759
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (travel narrative) 1775
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (travel narrative) 1785

Peter Kalm
Travels into North America (travel narrative) 1771

Louis Armand Lahontan
New Voyages to North-America (travel narrative) 1703

John Lawson
New Voyage to Carolina (travel narrative) 1709

John Lettice
Letters on a Tour through … Scotland (travel narrative) 1794

Jeronymo Lobo
Voyage historique d'Abissinie [translated to English as Voyage to Abyssinia in 1735] (travel narrative) 1728

John Lockman
The Travels of the Jesuits (travel narrative) 1743

John Macdonald
Travels in Various Parts of Europe (travel narrative) 1790

Dean Mahomet
The Travels of Dean Mahomet (travel narrative) 1794

Mary Wortley Montagu
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e: Written during her Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa [also called Embassy Letters] (travel narrative) 1763

John Moore
A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany (travel narrative) 1779

Lord Orrery
Letters from Italy in the Years 1754 and 1755 (travel narrative) 1773

Pehr Osbeck
A Voyage to China and the East Indies, by Peter Osbeck … Together with a Voyage to Suratte, by Olaf Toreen … and an account of the Chinese husbandry, by Captain Charles Gustavus Eckeberg (travel narrative) 1771

Mary Ann Parker
A Voyage Round the World (travel narrative) 1795

William Paterson
Narrative of Four Journeys into the Country of the Hottentots (travel narrative) 1789

Samuel Patterson
Another Traveller! (history) 1767

Thomas Pennant
Tour in Scotland (travel narrative) 1771
Tour in Wales (travel narrative) 1778

John Phipp
Voyage towards the North Pole (travel narrative) 1774

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
Observations and Reflections (travel narrative) 1789

James Porter
Observations on the Religion, Law, Government, and Manners, of the Turks (travel narrative) 1768
Useful Hints to Those Who Make the Tour of France (travel narrative) 1768

Ann Radcliffe
A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 through Holland and the Western Frontiers of Germany (travel narrative) 1795

Saverio Scrofani
Viaggio in Grecia (travel narrative) 1799

James Edward Smith
Sketch of a Tour on the Continent (travel narrative) 1793

Tobias Smollett
Travels through France and Italy (travel narrative) 1766
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (travel narrative) 1771

Anders Sparrman
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope (travel narrative) 1783

Marianna Starke
Letters from Italy (travel narrative) 1800

Watkin Tench
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (travel narrative) 1789
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (travel narrative) 1793

Philip Thicknesse
Observations of the Customs and Manners of the French Nation (travel narrative) 1766
A Year's Journey through France (travel narrative) 1777
Journey from Chester to London (travel narrative) 1782

Pascoe Thomas
True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas (travel narrative) 1745

Edward Thompson
Sailor's Letters Written … during His Voyages and Travels in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America (travel narrative) 1766

Joseph Townsend
Journey through Spain (travel narrative) 1791

Van Troil
Letters Containing an Account of a Voyage to Iceland (travel narrative) 1777

Richard Twiss
Travels through Portugal and Spain (travel narrative) 1775

Jacob Wallenberg
Min son på galejan [translated as My Son on the Galley] (travel narrative) 1781

Arthur Young
Travels in France (travel narrative) 1792

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