✈️ Travel & Exploration · United Kingdom
Best Travel & Exploration Books from United Kingdom
Travel writing is among the oldest literary forms — Homer's Odyssey is the first travel book, and Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and James Cook established the genre of exploration narrative. United Kingdom has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in travel & exploration, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best travel & exploration from United Kingdom by editorial consensus.
#1
literary-fiction
A Room with a View
E. M. Forster· 1905
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#2
literary-fiction
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad· 1899
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#3
literary-fiction
The mirror of the sea
Joseph Conrad· 1906
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#4
literary-fiction
Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf· 1915
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#5
literary-fiction
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad· 1900
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#6
literary-fiction
The Return of the Native
Thomas Hardy· 1878
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#7
literary-fiction
Their Wedding Journey
William Dean Howells· 1872
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#8
literary-fiction
All's Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare· 1734
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score45/100
#9
literary-fiction
The Razor's Edge
William Somerset Maugham· 1944
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#10
literary-fiction
Barry Lyndon
William Makepeace Thackeray· 1853
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#11
literary-fiction
A Caribbean Mystery
Agatha Christie· 1964
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#12
literary-fiction
Dodsworth
Sinclair Lewis· 1929
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#13
literary-fiction
Childe Harold's pilgrimage
Lord Byron· 1812
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#14
literary-fiction
Up at the Villa
William Somerset Maugham· 1941
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#15
classic-literature
Domestic manners of the Americans
Frances Milton Trollope· 1832
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#16
biography-memoir
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell· 1938
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#17
biography-memoir
Italian journeys
William Dean Howells· 1867
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#18
biography-memoir
On a Chinese screen
William Somerset Maugham· 1922
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#19
biography-memoir
When the Going Was Good
Evelyn Waugh· 1934
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#20
biography-memoir
Come, tell me how you live
Agatha Christie· 1946
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#21
biography-memoir
Death Valley in '49
William Lewis Manly· 1894
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#22
biography-memoir
History of a six weeks' tour 1817
Mary Shelley· 1817
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#23
literary-fiction
Travels with my aunt
Graham Greene· 1969
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#24
science-fiction
Salvation
Peter F. Hamilton· 2018
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#25
fantasy
Roverandom
J.R.R. Tolkien· 1998
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#26
biography-memoir
In Search of a Character: Two African Journals
Graham Greene· 1961
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#27
biography-memoir
A tourist in Africa
Evelyn Waugh· 1960
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#28
biography-memoir
On the edge of the rift
Elspeth Huxley· 1962
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#29
travel-exploration
Venetian life
William Dean Howells· 1866
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#30
travel-exploration
Twilight in Italy
D. H. Lawrence· 1916
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#31
travel-exploration
The Middle Kingdom
S. Wells Williams· 1848
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#32
travel-exploration
Etruscan places
D. H. Lawrence· 1674
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#33
travel-exploration
Essays
Virginia Woolf· 1947
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#34
travel-exploration
Another Mexico
Graham Greene· 1939
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#35
travel-exploration
Seven English Cities
William Dean Howells· 1909
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#36
travel-exploration
Familiar Spanish Travels
William Dean Howells· 1913
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#37
travel-exploration
Roman holidays and others
William Dean Howells· 1906
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#38
travel-exploration
The North-west passage by land
Milton, William Fitzwilliam Viscount· 1865
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#39
travel-exploration
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
Arthur Conan Doyle· 1921
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#40
travel-exploration
Mornings in Mexico and Etruscan places
D. H. Lawrence· 1927
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#41
travel-exploration
Sea and Sardinia
D. H. Lawrence· 1921
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#42
travel-exploration
History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark
Meriwether Lewis· 1814
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#43
travel-exploration
Journal of a West India proprietor, 1815-17
Matthew Gregory Lewis· 1834
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#44
travel-exploration
A journey from Madras through the countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar
Francis Hamilton· 1807
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#45
travel-exploration
My Canadian journal, 1872-1878
Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava· 1891
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#46
travel-exploration
Letters from high latitudes
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava· 1849
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#47
travel-exploration
Beyond the Mexique Bay
Aldous Huxley· 1934
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#48
travel-exploration
Jesting Pilate
Aldous Huxley· 1926
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#49
travel-exploration
Tuscan cities
William Dean Howells· 1885
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#50
travel-exploration
Remote People
Evelyn Waugh· 1931
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
