Life on the Mississippi

Life On The Mississippi

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Biographies & Memoirs

TWAIN,MARK

Historical

Read & Co. Travel

Across America by Motor-Cycle

Shepherd, C.K.

Professionals & Academics

This early work by Edward Thomas was originally published in 1916 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Icknield Way' is one of Thomas's essays on travel. Philip Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, England in 1878. His parents were Welsh migrants, and Thomas attended several schools, before ending up at St. Pauls. Thomas led a reclusive early life, and began writing as a teenager. He published his first book, The Woodland Life (1897), at the age of just nineteen. A year later, he won a history scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. Despite being less well-known than other World War I poets, Thomas is regarded by many critics as one of the finest.

The Icknield Way: With Illustrations by A. L. Collins

History

Thomas, Edward

Europe

China: With An Excerpt From In Mortimer Menpes' Studio By Raymond Blathwayt

Arts & Photography

Blathwayt, Raymond

Blake, Henry Arthur

Individual Artists

Japan - A Record in Colour', originally published in 1901, is Mortimer Menpes and his daughter Dorothy Menpes's first collaboration. Featuring 100 colour prints of Mortimer Menpes's beautiful watercolour paintings with Dorothy's transcribed anecdotes it provides an illustrated account of their travels around Japan. Mortimer Luddington Menpes (1855 - 1938), was an Australian-born British painter, author, and illustrator. This classic work is being republished now in a new colour edition and includes an excerpt from 'The Lure of Japan' By Shunkichi Akimoto.

Japan: A Record in Colour

Menpes, Mortimer

Menpes, Dorothy

Akimoto, Shunkichi

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (1868–1926) was an English writer, political officer, traveller, archaeologist, and administrator. She became an important policy-maker in the British Empire as a result of her extensive knowledge and contacts, which she built up through her numerous travels in Mesopotamia, Greater Syria, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Contents include: “Tell Aḥmar To Buseirah”, “Buseirah To Hît”, “The Parthian Stations Of Isidorus Of Charax”, “Hît To Kerbelâ”, “The Palace Of Ukheiḍir”, “Kerbelâ To Baghdâd”, “Baghdâd To Môṣul”, “The Ruins Of Sâmarrâ”, “Môṣul To Zâkhô”, “Zâkhô To Diyârbekr”, “Diyârbekr To Konia”, etc. Other notable works by this author include: “Poems from the Divan of Hafiz” (1892), “The Desert and the Sown” (1907), and “Mountains of the Servants of God” (1910). This classic work is being republished now in a new edition with specially curated introductory material.

Amurath to Amurath

Bell, Gertrude

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). First published in 1897, Twain's travel book "Following the Equator - A Journey Around the World" chronicles his 1895 tour of the British Empire when he was 60 years old. Fundamentally a social commentary, it is critical of what Twain considered England's oppressive imperialism and the racism that existed inside the empire. Other notable works by this author include: "The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today" (1873) and "The Prince and the Pauper" (1881). Read & Co. Travel is proudly republishing this fantastic adventure now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.

Following the Equator - A Journey Around the World

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

The Innocents Abroad

First published in 1896, “The Innocents Abroad” is a travel book written by Mark Twain. Within it, Twain recounts his trip aboard the ship “Quaker City” as it travelled through Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. The book sold more copies than any other Twain wrote in his life and remains among the best-selling travel book of all time. A fantastic example of classic travel literature by one of America's greatest men of letters. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), more commonly known under the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, lecturer, publisher and entrepreneur most famous for his novels “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884). Other notable works by this author include: “The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today” (1873) and “The Prince and the Pauper” (1881). Read & Co. Travel is proudly republishing this famous classic now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864–1922), also known as Nellie Bly, was an American industrialist, journalist, charity worker, and inventor famous for her 72-day trip around the world in the footsteps of the fictional Phileas Fogg. She is also remembered for her exposé working undercover in a mental institute, which led to a new style of investigative journalism. In her 1888 travelogue, Seaman recounts her time spent travelling around Mexico, offering insights into all aspects of Mexican life from manners and methods of courtship to politics, history, geography, and beyond. Contents include: “Adieu to the United States”, “El Paso Del Norte”, “Along the Route”, “The City of Mexico”, “In the Streets of Mexico”, “How Sunday is Celebrated”, “A Horseback Ride Over Historic Grounds”, “A Mexican Bull-Fight”, “The Museum and its Curiosities”, etc. Read & Co. Travel is republishing this classic travelogue now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore.

Six Months in Mexico: And Other Investigative Journalism Articles

Bly, Nellie

Livermore, Mary A.

Willard, Frances E.

Community & Culture

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