30 Travel writers

Younis Saleh Bahri al-Juburi was an Iraqi traveler, journalist, broadcaster, and writer. He was born in January 1904 in Mosul, and was nicknamed "the sailor" for having studied in a military school in Istanbul and graduated as a naval officer. In 1921, he continued his education in the Cavalry Military School in Munich, where he met Adolf Hitler. He has written many book, traveled to several countries, and he is said to have mastered over 17 languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has founded multiple radio stations, and was the founder of the first Arab radio station in the European continent in 1939, which is the Arab Radio of Berlin, broadcast in Germany to the Arab world. His famous catchphrase was: "This is Berlin, the neighborhood of Arabs." On air, he would make speeches, where he would insult some kings and presidents. He has met some very famous people of his time, and was sentenced to death four times. His personality caused, and still does, controversy around the nature of his work and his different professions. While he lived in India, he was a monk during the day and a dancer at a nightclub during the night, while still finding time to work as a reporter for an Indian newspaper. He was also a Mufti in Indonesia, an Editor in Chief for a newspaper in Java, an Imam in Paris, and gained the nickname "the Legend of the Earth".

Babis Bizas is a travel writer, explorer and tour operator, and the most traveled man on Earth. He was born in Arta, Epirus, Greece. He participated in an expedition to the North Pole in May 1996. Almost 18 years later, in December 2014, he landed in the South Pole, becoming that way probably the only one Greek to have visited both Poles. By 2004 Bizas had visited all 194 sovereign countries of the world at that time. He is currently a member of the RGO Русское географическое общество.

William Goodison (1785–1836) was an assistant surgeon of the British Army. He was born in 1785 in the county of Wicklow, Ireland. His father, William Goodison, was a pharmacist and urged his son to study under professor Austin of Trinity College, Dublin. William Goodison entered Trinity College at the age of 16, in 1801, and concluded his studies in the spring of 1807 by obtaining a B.A.. He ranked the Medical Service of the British Army on 23 August 1810. He was placed an assistant surgeon of the 75th Regiment of Foot, a position previously held by John Cumine. He served this post until 4 March 1824, when he was reduced on half-pay and moved to the 25th Regiment of Light Dragoons, until his death in August 1836.

Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund, known collectively as Hanzelka and Zikmund, were a duo of Czech adventurers known for their travels in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania in the 1940s and 1950s, and for the books, articles, and films they created about their journeys.

Lieve Joris is a Belgian non-fiction writer on the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa.

Uruch Beg, later known by his baptized name of Don Juan (1560–1604) was a late 16th and early 17th century Iranian figure in Iran and Spain. He is also known as Faisal Nazary. A native of Iran, and from the Bayat Qizilbash clan, he later moved westward, settled in Spain, and became a Roman Catholic. There he wrote an account of Iran, his involvement there with Shah Abbas I, and his journey to Spain in the Persian embassy to Europe (1599-1602). He was killed in 1604 during a street fight.

Prince Bojidar Karageorgevitch was a Serbian artist, art writer, world traveller, and member of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty. He gave singing and drawing lessons and later earned his living as an art critic and translator. He was a contributor to the Encyclopædia Britannica, Le Figaro, La Revue de Paris, Revue des Revues, Magazine of Art, and other publications.

Allan Karl is an American author, adventurer and speaker. He is most known for travelling around the world on his motorcycle and subsequently writing the book, Forks: A Quest for Culture, Cuisine and Connection.

Kapka Kassabova is a poet and writer of fiction and narrative non-fiction. Her mother tongue is Bulgarian, but she writes in English.

Ada Cherry Kearton was a South African classical soprano who sang in concert and oratorio. She made her London debut in 1907 and retired from the stage shortly before her marriage in 1922 to the English wildlife photographer Cherry Kearton. Her 1956 autobiography On Safari recounts their travels together in Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Maksym Ivanovych Kidruk is a Ukrainian travelogue and fiction writer. His professional career began in 2009 with an autobiographical novel The Mexican Chronicles, describing the journey across Mexico from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea. Since then Kidruk traveled in 29 countries and wrote eight fiction books including travelogues, adventure stories and thrillers. He is the author of the very first Ukrainian techno-thriller Bot. Most of his stories are based on real places and events which Kidruk witnessed or heard of from fellow travelers during his journeys. From 2012, he has been working solely in the techno-thriller genre.

Nicholas Kralev is an American author, journalist, analyst, speaker and entrepreneur specializing in international affairs and global travel. He has been particularly recognized for his work on American diplomacy and the U.S. Foreign Service.

Phyllis Louise Krasilovsky was an American writer of children's books.

Kate Marsden was a British missionary, explorer, writer and nurse. Supported by Queen Victoria and Empress Maria Fedorovna she investigated a cure for leprosy. She set out on a round trip from Moscow to Siberia to find a cure, creating a leper treatment centre in Siberia. She returned to England and helped to found Bexhill Museum, but she was obliged to retire as a trustee. Marsden was dogged after her journey by homophobia: her finances were questioned as were her motives for her journey. Her accusers almost succeeded in making her sexuality the basis for an "Oscar Wilde"-type trial. She was however elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. She has a large diamond named after her and is still celebrated in Siberia, where a large memorial statue was erected at Sosnovka village in 2014.

Elizabeth Murray, born Elizabeth Heaphy, was a British watercolourist. She primarily painted portraits and landscapes of the Canary Islands, where she lived for ten years. She was a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and she founded the Society of Female Artists in London.

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, most commonly known as V. S. Naipaul, and informally, Vidia Naipaul, was a Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English. He is known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad, his bleaker novels of alienation in the wider world, and his vigilant chronicles of life and travels. He wrote in prose that was widely admired, but his views sometimes aroused controversy. He published more than thirty books over fifty years.

Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.

Richard Pococke was an English-born churchman, inveterate traveller and travel writer. He was the Bishop of Ossory (1756–65) and Meath (1765), both dioceses of the Church of Ireland. However, he is best known for his travel writings and diaries.

Edward Pugh (1763–1813) was a Welsh artist known for his landscape paintings of north Wales. He was the subject of a book-length biography by John Barrell in 2013.

Ellen Rydelius (1885–1957) was a Swedish translator and writer. She wrote a large number of guide books to major cities and several cookbooks but her major works are translations of Russian novels. In particular, she is remembered for her translation into Swedish of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell was an English author of religious and educational texts notable in the 19th century. As a home tutor, she devised a set of influential principles of education.

Tsur Shezaf is an Israeli travel-book writer, journalist and novelist.

Ted Simon is British travel writer noted for circumnavigating the world twice by motorcycle. He was raised in London by a German mother and a Romanian father.

Ian Thomson is an English author, best known for his biography Primo Levi (2002), and reportage, The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica (2009)

Michael J. Tougias is a writer who was born in Longmeadow, Massachusetts in 1955. He writes about maritime, travel, and adventure topics.

Johnny Ward is a Northern Irish entrepreneur and travel blogger known for visiting every country in the world.

Olivier Weber is an award-winning French writer, novelist and reporter at large, known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been a war correspondent for twenty-five years, especially in Central Asia, Africa, Middle-East and Iraq. He is an assistant professor at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris, president of the Prize Joseph Kessel and today ambassador of France at large. Weber has won several national and international awards of literature and journalism, in particular for his stories on Afghanistan and for his books on wars. His novels, travels writing books and essays have been translated in a dozen of languages.

Tony Wheeler is an English publishing entrepreneur, businessman and travel writer, co-founder of the Lonely Planet guidebook company with his wife Maureen Wheeler.

Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund, known collectively as Hanzelka and Zikmund, were a duo of Czech adventurers known for their travels in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania in the 1940s and 1950s, and for the books, articles, and films they created about their journeys.