Nonfiction books - travel diaries, journals, letters, memoirs - written by women traveling the world.
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last updated July, 2026
The Diary of Selma Lagerlof
Selma Lagerlöf
Moscow Excursion
P.L. Travers
Travel Gods Must Be Crazy
Sudha Mahalingam
A Three-Legged Tour in Greece (24.3-4.5 1925)
Ethel Smyth
Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843: Vol. I
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
America Day by Day
Simone de Beauvoir
Travels With Virginia Woolf
Jan Morris
Life on the Golden Horn
Mary Wortley Montagu
The Desert and the Sown: Travels in Palestine and Syria
Gertrude Bell
The Letters of Gertrude Bell: Volumes 1 and 2
My Great, Wide, Beautiful World (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940)
Juanita Harrison
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
Elizabeth Bisland
Freya Stark in Iraq & Kuwait (Freya Stark Archives)
Malise Ruthven
The Valleys of the Assassins: and Other Persian Travels (Modern Library)
Freya Stark
Adventure
Rosita Forbes
Around the World in 72 Days
Nellie Bly
A Hippo Banquet
Mary H. Kingsley
Travels in West Africa
Morning Star: Florence Baker's Diary Of The Expedition To Put Down The Slave Trade On The Nile, 1870-1873
Anne Baker
From the Sahara to Samarkand: Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937
The Virago Book of Women Travellers
Mary Morris
Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
The Grand Tour: Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922
Agatha Christie
Come, Tell Me How You Live
Agatha Christie Mallowan
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