Account of Richardson's travels in Morocco, edited by his widow after his death. Excerpt of contents: "CHAPTER I. The Mogador Jewesses.—Disputes between the Jew and the Moor.—Melancholy Scenes.—The Jews of the Atlas.—Their Religion.—Beautiful Women.—The Four Wives.—Statues discovered.—Discrepancy of age of married people.—Young and frail fair ones.—Superstition respecting Salt.—White Brandy.—Ludicrous Anecdote. CHAPTER...

"In collecting material for these notes on Scilly, I have endeavoured to prepare myself more or less to qualify for the former class; but now that they are complete it is with diffidence that I present them. They are but the impressions of an artist, recorded in colour and in ink, together with so much of the history of the islands and of general description as is necessary to comply with the unwritten law of colour-books. For my historical facts...

Contents [excerpt]: I. Something about my Home and Track’s End: with how I leave the one and get acquainted with Pike at the other. II. The rest of my second Night at Track’s End, and part of another: with some Things which happen between. III. A Fire and a Blizzard: with how a great many People go away from Track’s End and how some others come. IV. We prepare to fight the Robbers and I make a little Trip out to Bill Mountain’s House:...

“My Winter on the Nile,” and its sequel, “In the Levant,” which record the experiences and observations of an Oriental journey, were both published in 1876; but as this volume was issued only by subscription, it has never reached the large public which is served by the general book trade. It is now republished and placed within the reach of those who have read “In the Levant.” Advantage has been taken of its reissue to give it a careful...

Charles George Harper (1863–1943) was an English author and illustrator. Born in London, England, Harper wrote self-illustrated travel books, including those exploring the regions, roads, coastlines, literary connections, and old inns of Britain. In later life, he lived in Petersham. Aside from the some 170 topographical works, he wrote a books on drawing and its techniques, including English Pen Artists of To-day (1892) and A Practical Handbook...

A travel guide for Corsica.

A description of Denmark for the armchair traveler. Originally published in 1921.

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (24 May 1852 – 20 March 1936) was a Scottish politician, writer, journalist and adventurer. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP); the first ever socialist member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; a founder, and the first president, of the Scottish Labour Party; a founder of the National Party of Scotland in 1928; and the first president of the Scottish National Party in 1934. [Source: Wikipedia] "Writers,...

"Samuel Levy Bensusan (29 September 1872 – 11 December 1958) was a British author, musician, traveller, playwright, recorder of declining Essex dialects, and expert on country matters. He was born in Dulwich and died aged 86 at Hastings, and was the son of a Jewish feather merchant, Jacob Samuel Levy Bensusan (1846–1917) and Miriam Bensusan (1848–1926)." [Source: Wikipedia]

To begin with, the streets of London are not paved with gold; but I need not have said that, for nowadays the very youngest child knows it. It was Dick Whittington who first imagined anything so foolish; but then he was only a country lad, and in his days there were not the same opportunities for finding out the truth about things as there are now. There were very few books for one thing, and those there were cost a great deal of money, and would...