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A vivid account of the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1921-1922, a country in a turbulent period of modernization under the reformist king Amanullah Khan, the clash of tradition and the new age, and the exotic life of Afghan society.
Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski's travelogue provides a vivid account of Bosnia in the mid-19th century, recording the landscape, customs, political circumstances, and everyday life under Ottoman rule.
This excellent professional-popular work presents the physical and technical foundations of astronautics, explains the principles of rocket propulsion and satellite trajectories, and analyzes the historical achievements and future of space exploration.
Zuka Džumhur's Pilgrimage is a blend of travelogue, essay, and cultural chronicle: a book about cities, people, and history, written humorously, eruditely, and with a distinct sense of the atmosphere of a place.
Two masterpieces of travel prose in which D. H. Lawrence records encounters with Mexican nature and Native American rituals, as well as Etruscan tombs and art, contrasting them with modern mechanical civilization.
A travelogue by British painter and travel writer Richard Wyndham from Sudan (Bahr el Ghazal Province). A vivid, humorous and introspective account of his encounter with African tribes, nature and colonial reality in the 1930s.