british travel writers

H. G. Wells

English writer

Rebecca West

British author, journalist, literary critic, and travel writer

H. M. Tomlinson

British writer and journalist

Anthony Trollope

English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era

Wilfred Thesiger

British military officer, explorer, and writer

Freya Stark

Anglo-Italian explorer and travel writer

Jonathan Raban

British travel writer, critic, and novelist

Redmond O’Hanlon

English writer and scholar.

V. S. Naipaul

Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English

Peter Mayle

British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. He wrote a series of bestselling memoirs of his life there, beginning with A Year in Provence .