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.
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The World-Wide Atlas of Modern Geography, Political and Physical, containing 120 plates and complete index, with an Introduction by J. Scott Keltie, 1892
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Savage Life in New Guinea, the Papuan in many moods by Charles W. Abel
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The Vikings and America by Erik Wahlgren with 103 Illustrations, 1986
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Island on the Edge of the World , Utopian St Kilda and its Passing by Charles Maclean, 1972
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The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1915
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Last Trains Dr Beeching and the Death of Rural England By Charles Loft 2013
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The Highland Railway Company and Its Constituents and Successors 1855-1955
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Glasgow Stations By Colin Johnston & John R Hume 1979
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Forgotten Frontier by Geoffrey Tyson, 1945
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A Year of Space, A Chapter in Autobiography by Eric Linklater, 1953
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The Jungle Is Neutral by E. Spencer Chapman, 1949
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The Horn of Africa, Travels in British Somaliland by John Buchholzer, 1959
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Royal India, A descriptive and historical study of India's fifteen principal States and their Rules by Maud Diver, 1943
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Photographs in New Zealand 1866-1898, Burton Brothers
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Forty-One Years in India from Subaltern to Commander-in-Chief by Field-Marshal Lord Roberts of Kandahar, 1898
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Odtaa, Being Extracts from the diary of an Officer who served with the 4/10th Gurkha Rifles in Manipur and Burma, by Anthony Charles Bickersteth, 1953
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Caribbean, Sea of the New World by German Arciniegas, 1946
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The Peoples and Politics of The Far East by Henry Norman, 1899
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Portrait of Skye and the Outer Hebrides by W. Douglas Simpson, 1967
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Tales From the Gulistan Translated by Sir Richard F. Burton, 1928
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Desert and Delta by Major C. S. Jarvis, 1947, Vintage Book
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Strathpeffer Spa Its Climate and Waters By Fortescue Fox 1889
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Peaks and Lamas by Marco Pallis, 1948
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The Bushman's Handcrafts by R. M. Williams, 1977
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