Here at Stanfords we have just unveiled exciting new additions to our shelves – Stanfords Travel Classics.
As a specialist travel bookseller we were inspired to put together a collection of the travel books that we really love, so we have launched a series that republishes some of the finest historical travel writing in our own branded paperbacks.
Our expert readers have combed the archives of historical travel literature to find the very best writing from the very best writers to launch the series. We’ve just produced our first 10 titles and they include famous literary names such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Mark Twain and Edith Wharton, as well as classic tales of exploration and adventure from Ernest Shackleton, Mungo Park, Isabella Bird and Joshua Slocum.
The list also rediscovers the writings of two great Victorian naturalists, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates, whose vivid descriptions of their travels in unknown parts of the natural world are not only wonderfully vivid, but also offer timely inspiration to our own age in the battle to preserve the planet’s environments.
We wanted to republish these titles using a striking contemporary design to demonstrate that this historical writing can be as fresh today as when it was first printed. We worked with expert book designer, Adrian Sharman of StudioAS, who came up with some wonderful fresh cover designs for Stanfords Travel Classics. We think that the striking black and white photographs that Adrian has found for the covers evoke the subjects of the books beautifully. These are books that we are proud to put our name on.
The first 10 titles are numbered on the spine so why not collect the complete library! And we plan to add more titles to the Stanfords Travel Classics. There are many more wonderful travel books out there that are out of copyright and that we’d like to republish. If you have any suggestions about titles you would recommend, we’d love to hear from you. Just email travelclassics@stanfords.co.uk with your favourites and when we publish a book that you recommend we'll send you a free copy! (Remember to qualify for our series the book must be out of copyright which means the author must have died more than 70 years ago).
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Date: 25 January 2008