100+ More FREE Books About Women Traveling the World

This is the second of several posts linking to various public domain books on interesting topics! Public domain books are ones that have fallen out of copyright, and so they’re available for free to download and read.

This specific post focuses on the following:

• Women traveling to various countries, either solo or with their partner/family
• Women’s memoirs about specific places in specific time periods, which usually have an element of travel to them
• Books available through the amazing website Project Gutenberg, which releases them in various formats

Be sure to also check out 101+ FREE Books About Women Traveling the World for more books!

I’ve put this list together myself (no AI!!) by going through many (MANY) pages of books within the various travel-related subject pages. I even hand-coded the links myself!

While you can find a lot just going through the main “travel” genre page, I noticed that some books get sorted under specific location subjects or even just a general nonfiction tag, so my hope is that putting these lists together will help you discover some new-to-you books and authors you might not’ve seen before.

Each link goes to the book’s main page on the Project Gutenberg website. To download a copy for yourself, select the format you’d like and it should download to your device.

Note: Some links here are affiliate links, which means if you click on it and buy something, I get a small percentage. This money goes towards running the blog. Thank you for your support!

Book List

1. The Adventures of a Woman Hobo by Ethel Lynn (1917)
2. Java, Facts and Fancies by Augusta de Wit (1905)
3. Letters from Egypt by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon (1902)
4. Letters from the Cape by Lady Lucie Duff Gordon (1921)
5. The Spell of Japan by Isabel Anderson (1914)
6. The Spell of Belgium by Isabel Anderson (1915)
7. The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines by Isabel Anderson (1916)
8. Journal of a Voyage to Brazil by Lady Maria Callcott (1824)
9. The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them by Busk (1874)
10. Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson (1886)
11. A Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam’, Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey (1881)
12. The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the ‘Sunbeam’ by Annie Brassey (1887)
13. Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O’Reilly (1910)
14. Sun and Shadow in Spain by Maud Howe Elliott (1908)
15. Roma beata; letters from the Eternal city by Maud Howe Elliott (1909)
16. In Morocco by Edith Wharton (1920)
17. Italian Backgrounds by Edith Wharton (1905)
18. A Motor-Flight Through France by Edith Wharton (1908)
19. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete by Charlotte Biggs (1797)
20. My Trip Around the World: August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt (1902)
21. A lady’s captivity among Chinese pirates in the Chinese seas by Fanny Loviot (1860)
22. The journal of Elizabeth Lady Holland (1791-1811) Volume 2 (1908)
23. Poor Folk in Spain by Jan Gordon and Cora Gordon (1922)
24. The Luck of Thirteen: Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Jan Gordon and Cora Gordon (1916)
25. Through the Land of the Serb by M. E. Durham (1904)
26. Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle by M. E. Durham (1920)
27. The British Association’s Visit to Montreal, 1884: Letters by Lady Clara Rayleigh
28. Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly (1888)
29. South and South Central Africa by Hannah Frances Davidson (1915)
30. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman’s Eight Years’ Residence Amongst the Women of the East by M.E. Hume-Griffith (1909)
31. In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory (1903)
32. A Glimpse at Guatemala by Anne Cary Maudslay and Alfred Percival Maudslay (1899)
33. From Gretna Green to Land’s End: A Literary Journey in England by Katharine Lee Bates (1907)
34. Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates (1900)
35. Music-Study in Germany, from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay (1880)
36. A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland by Meg Gehrts (1915)
37. Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (1909)
38. A-Birding on a Bronco by Florence Merriam Bailey (1896)
39. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
40. Journal of a Residence in America by Fanny Kemble (1835)
41. An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton
42. A thousand miles up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards
43. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Emma Roberts (1841)
44. Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1916)
45. Our sentimental journey through France and Italy by Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1893)
46. Our Philadelphia by Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1914)
47. Our Journey to the Hebrides by Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1890)
48. Two Pilgrims’ Progress; from fair Florence, to the eternal city of Rome by Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1886)
49. A Canterbury Pilgrimage by Joseph Pennell and Elizabeth Robins Pennell (1885)
50. From sketch-book and diary by Elizabeth Butler (1909)
51. Letters from the Holy Land by Elizabeth Butler (1903)
52. As Seen By Me by Lilian Bell (1900)
53. Abroad with the Jimmies by Lilian Bell
54. From Vermont to Damascus by Adna Brown (1895)
55. Home Life on an Ostrich Farm by Mrs. Annie Martin (1891)
56. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 by Hester Lynch Piozzi and Vol. 2 (1789)
57. History of a Six Weeks’ Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland by Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1817)
58. Paris Vistas by Helen Davenport Gibbons (1919)
59. Gondola days by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1897)
60. The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1841)
61. Rambles in Waltham Forest: A Stranger’s Contribution to the Triennial Sale for the Benefit of the Wanstead Lying-in Charity by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington (1827)
62. In the Heart of the Vosges and Other Sketches by a “Devious Traveller” (Matilda Betham-Edwards) (1911)
63. East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Mathilda Betham-Edwards
64. Through Spain to the Sahara by Matilda Betham-Edwards (1868)
65. The Roof of France; Or, the Causses of the Lozère by Matilda Betham-Edwards
66. Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
67. The Diary of a Girl in France in 1821 by Mary Browne (1918)
68. Venice by Beryl De Zoete and Mary Sturge Gretton (1907)
69. North Italian Folk: Sketches of Town and Country Life by Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr (1878)
70. Rambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843, vol. 1 of 2 by Mary Shelley and Vol. 2 (1844)
71. Italian Days and Ways by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton (1906)
72. Palmetto-Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1873)
73. Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica (1909)
74. In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw (1907)
75. The mystery of Easter island: the story of an expedition by Katherine Routledge
76. The Cruise of the ‘Janet Nichol’ Among the South Sea Islands: A Diary by Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1914)
77. The Englishwoman in Egypt by Sophia Lane Poole (1845)
78. An Englishwoman in Angora by Grace Ellison (1923)
79. An Englishwoman in a Turkish harem by Grace Ellison (1915)
80. The Letters of “Norah” on Her Tour Through Ireland
81. Peeps at Many Lands: Ireland by Katharine Tynan (1909)
82. Peeps at Many Lands: Portugal by Agnes M. Goodall (1909)
83. One Year Abroad by Blanche Willis Howard (1877)
84. Station Life in New Zealand by Lady Barker (1870)
85. Station Amusements in New Zealand by Lady Barker (1873)
86. Life in South Africa by Lady Barker (1877)
87. Colonial memories by Lady Barker (1904)
88. Letters to Guy by Lady Barker (1885)
89. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius Sheldon
90. A Pilgrimage to Nejd, the Cradle of the Arab Race. Vol. 1 [of 2] by Lady Anne Blunt and Vol. 2 (1881)
91. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. Jameson and Vol. 2, Vol. 3 (1835)
92. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. Jameson (1852)
93. The Fortunate Isles: Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd (1911)
94. Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 by Ida May Hill Starr and Vol. 2 (1903)
95. Life in Mexico by Madame Calderón de la Barca (1843)
96. Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln (1895)
97. When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln (1896)
98. Fifteen Years Among the Top-Knots; Or, Life in Korea by Lillias H. Underwood (1904)
99. Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book Of Travel by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1894)
100. 20 hrs., 40 min.: our flight in the Friendship by Amelia Earhart (1928)