Classic Travel Stories

“Throughout human history, voyagers have returned home with tales of the wonders they encountered in distant lands. Some set out to explore the uninhabited wilderness, some to visit great emperors or holy places, some to make new lives for their families.
No matter what their intentions, however, all were united in a common courage and in an insatiable curiosity about what lay over the horizon.

This fascinating anthology contains more than sixty-five of their stories, representing a vast range of cultures and over 3.000 years of writing. The list of authors reads like a roll-call of famous travellers. Here are the adventures of Marco Polo and David Livingstone, Daniel Boon and Captain Scott, Cortés and Humboldt. Between them, they have journeyed across every continent and through every kind of terrain.

Classic Travel Stories is a book for everyone who has ever succumbed to the spell of the unknown.”