Why limit your travel to space when you can travel in time too? Check out old travelogues written before you were born. Not only are the stories and places interesting, the stories also tell a meta-story of a different era in travel.

Many of them are in the public domain and downloadable as PDFs, some are available from your local library in digital form. Find one you like, and spider your way to others using the author or the author’s text as a guide to other books.