Books like English passengers by Matthew Kneale

Treasure Island is Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure about a boy’s coming‑of‑age journey on a ship, featuring the iconic Long John Silver and shaping modern notions of pirates, treasure maps and tropical island tales.

In the age of Louis XIV, D’Artagnan joins three musketeers to protect Queen Anne of Austria from Cardinal Richelieu’s intrigues, offering a tale of swordplay, adventure, and French history.

A woman born on a snowy night in 1910 dies and is reborn repeatedly, each life giving her the chance to alter history as the world heads toward another global conflict.

The Warmth of Other Suns is a non‑fiction study of the Great Migration, tracing the journey of nearly six million African Americans from the South to northern and western cities between 1915 and 1970.

The sixth adventure of Captain Jack Aubrey and chief ship doctor Stephen Maturin, set during the War of 1812.

A daring British aristocrat, Sir Percy Blakeney, becomes the legendary Elusive Pimpernel, rescuing aristocrats from the Terror during France’s Revolution of 1793.

A 2005 fictional biography by Isabel Allende chronicles the legendary origins of Zorro, serving as a prequel to the original story and referencing other Zorro adaptations.

Michael Chabon’s latest novel follows two wandering mercenaries, Zelikman and Amram, as they travel through the 10th‑century Caucasus, swindling, fighting, and ultimately being drawn into a Khazar coup.

A Chilean woman embarks on a quest to find her lover in 1840s California's goldfields, facing numerous challenges and adventures along the way.

Paul Theroux’s 1973 four‑month train voyage across the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia becomes a vivid record of travel, railroads, and personal encounters.

In Victorian London, long‑separated friends Emily ‘Fido’ Faithfull and Helen rekindle a bond when Fido steers Helen into an affair with a young army officer, only to risk everything with a mysterious sealed letter.

A young knight named Richard Shelley rises during the Wars of the Roses, rescues his lady love, seeks revenge for his father’s murder, and, when suspected himself, joins the outlaw band known as the Black Arrow.

Through a Glass Darkly follows Barbara Alderley, a beautiful fifteen‑year‑old noblewoman, as love, ambition and family intrigue unfold within the ruthless circles of the English aristocracy.

Set during World War II, this novel follows surgeon Dorrigo Evans as he struggles to protect his men on the Thailand‑Burma Death Railway, while an earlier love affair haunts his conscience.

"Every spring, millions of geese embark on an arduous three-thousand-mile migration from their winter quarters in the southern United States to their breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic. One year William Fiennes decided to go with them. Intrigued by what he'd read about the birds' amazing annual journey, Fiennes was also desperate to emerge from a period of illness and from the belief that, at age twenty-six, his life had ground to a halt.". "The story of his voyage turns out to be about a great deal more than geese. A blend of memoir, natural history, and travel writing, The Snow Geese is also about homecoming: the birds on their long homeward journey north, the romance of homecomings, the urge to leave home and the even stronger need to return. The arc of Fiennes's extraordinary adventure is the backbone of a narrative rich in meditations on philosophy and natural science, and deeply perceptive in its descriptions of both physical and emotional travel."--BOOK JACKET.