Welcome to Island Trader

Island Trader Media is a boutique travel publisher specialising in historical and history-related travel. It produces quality editions of forgotten classics of travel literature annotated for contemporary readers and publishes guidebooks to historical cities.

Recent Publications

Recent publications include Guide to Colonial Yangon: a Tour around the Remains of the British City of Rangoon. An ongoing project is the republication of books by Harry L Foster, an American travel writer active in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Guide to Colonial Yangon published by Island Trader Media
Guide to Colonial Georgetown Penang Book Cover
Communist Budapest - The Guidebook