A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.

Tim Fulford, Peter J Kitson, Tim Youngs

Part II Volume 5: The Middle East Richard Robert Madden, Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1824, 1825, 1826, and 1827 (1833); Julia Pardoe, The City of the Sultan, and, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836 (1837); Josias Leslie Porter, Five Years in Damascus: Including an Account of the History, Topography, and Antiquities of that City; with Travels and Researches in Palmyra, Lebanon, and the Hauran (1855); David Urquhart, The Lebanon: (Mount Souria) A History and a Diary (1860); William Hepworth Dixon, The Holy Land (1865); William Gifford Palgrave, Narrative of a Year's Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-1863) (1865); Henry Baker Tristram, The Land of Israel: A Journal of Travels in Palestine, Undertaken with Special Reference to its Physical Character (1865); Augustus Henry Mounsey, A Journey Through the Caucasus and the Interior of Persia (1872); Isabel Burton, The Inner Life of Syria, Palestine, and the Holy Land: From my Private Journal (1875); Laurence Oliphant, The Land of Gilead with Excursions in the Lebanon (1880); Mary Esme Scott-Stevenson, Our Ride Through Asia Minor (1881); David G. Hogarth, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant (1896); Mrs W. M. Ramsay, Everyday Life in Turkey (1897); H. Rider Haggard, A Winter Pilgrimage Being an Account of Travels through Palestine, Italy and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the year 1900 (1901)