Collection: Travel & Exploration Books
Discover vintage and antique travel and exploration books that bring the world’s adventures, discoveries, and wonders to life. Perfect for collectors, explorers at heart, and anyone inspired by journeys across time and place.
Embark on a journey through time and place with our collection of vintage and antique travel and exploration books. Discover tales of daring expeditions, classic travel writing, and fascinating accounts of explorers venturing into the unknown. Whether you’re passionate about geography, history, or simply love a good adventure, these books bring the world’s wonders and mysteries to your bookshelf.
The Spirit of Travel & Exploration
Our selection features travelogues, illustrated guides, and first-hand narratives from explorers, adventurers, and travellers. From epic voyages and mountain ascents to journeys across continents and cultures, each book captures the excitement and discovery that comes with exploring new lands.
Browse Our Travel & Exploration Books Collection
Looking for a particular country, explorer, or era? Use our search to find books by destination, author, or subject. You might also enjoy browsing our History Books or Scottish Books collections for more inspiration.
All of our travel and exploration books are clearly described and thoughtfully chosen, so you can buy with confidence from J.W.B Books.
-
Rambles in the Alps by Hugh Merrick, 1951
Regular price £8.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Alpine Wonderland, A Collection of Photographs made by J. J. Schatz, Introduced by Sir Claud Schuster, 1936
Regular price £25.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Bacon's The Excelsior Atlas and Gazetteer of the World, Antique Atlas
Regular price £25.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / perSold out -
Longhouse in Sarawak by Mora Dickson, 1971
Regular price £20.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
The Sherpas of Nepal, Buddhist Highlanders by Christoph von Furer-Haimendoft, 1964
Regular price £18.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
The Useless Land, A Winter in the Atacama Desert by John Aarons and Claudio Vita-Finzi, 1960
Regular price £40.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Illustrated Road Book of Scotland With Gazetteer, Itineraries, Maps & Town Plans 1960
Regular price £6.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Perth A Comprehensive Guide For Locals and Visitors By John Hulbert 2015
Regular price £6.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / perSold out -
Across Africa By Verney Lovett Cameron 1877 2 Volumes
Regular price £30.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / perSold out -
Travels In The Western Hebrides From 1782 To 1790 By Reverend John Lane Buchanan 1997
Regular price £4.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Fiji and the Fijians by Thomas Williams, and Missionary Labours Among the Cannibals by James Calvert, 1870
Regular price £15.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / perSold out -
Man of Everest, the Autobiography of Tenzing, told by James Ramsey Ullman, 1956
Regular price £7.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Travels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator by Edward Whymper
Regular price £8.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Southern Steam On The Isle of Wight By Tony Fairclough and Alan Wills 1975
Regular price £5.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Rail Atlas Of Great Britain & Ireland Compiled By S.K. Baker 1990
Regular price £4.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Travelling By Train In The Twenties and Thirties By Philip Unwin 1981
Regular price £4.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
English Lakeland in Colour, A Collection of Colour Photographs with an Introductory Text and Notes on the Illustrations by Dudley Hoys, 1959
Regular price £5.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
The North Berwick and Gullane Branch Lines By Andrew M. Hajducki 1992
Regular price £6.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
British Steam On The Pampas The Locomotives of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway By D.S. Purdom 1997
Regular price £4.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
The Lauder Light Railway By Andrew M. Hajducki and Alan Simpson 1996
Regular price £4.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels and Excursions, Volume I, 1894
Regular price £25.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
West Coast of Scotland Pilot, Comprising the West Coast of Scotland from the Mull of Galloway to Cape Wrath including the Inner and Outer Hebrides, 1958, S.D. No. 66
Regular price £12.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / perSold out -
Lamas of the Western Heavens by Regis-Evariste Huc, Translated by Charles de Salis, 1982
Regular price £15.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / per -
Sold out
Venice by Pompeo Molmenti
Regular price £6.00 GBPRegular priceUnit price / perSold out