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This is a photograph and excerpt from British travel writer Ella Constance Sykes's 1898 travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle'

This is an engraved portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in traditional Turkish dress, by S. Hollyer and J. B. Wandesforde, c. 1717

This is an 1898 image from Ella Constance Sykes's travel memoir 'Through Persia on a Side-Saddle' of Qal'eh Dokhtar, a castle erected in 209 AD by Ardashir I in present-day Fars, Iran.

This is an image taken from Joseph and Elizabeth Robin Pennell's travel memoir 'Our Sentimental Journey through France and Italy,' (1888) inspired by Laurence Sterne's earlier travel narrative of a similar title 'A Sentimental Journey through France…

John Lockwood Kipling's title illustration for Rudyard Kipling's "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat" for the 1895 edition of 'The Two Jungle Books.'

John Lockwood Kipling's illustration for Rudyard Kipling's 1895 edition of 'The Two Jungle Books,' for the chapter "Letting in the Jungle"

Originally written in the second century CE, Pausanias' Description of Greece is shown here in a fifteenth century manuscript, and tells the cultural geography of Greece from a Roman perspective.

This is the cover for John Murray's 1871 travel guide 'Handbook for Travellers in Turkey in Asia including Constantinople, the Bosphorus, Dardanelles, Brousa and Plain of Troy.'

This is a 1639 pittoresco painting by Claude Lorraine entitle 'La Campiña Romana.'

The title page for the 1880 publication of 'What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle"'