While the late 18th and early 19th-century proliferation of European accounts of travel and exploration has been extensively researched by scholars, less attention has been paid to how such travel books were mediated to wider audiences through the contemporary periodical press. To address this gap in scholarship, this article considers the coverage given to travel and travel writing in the Representative, a short-lived daily newspaper that ran for just six months in 1826. Although it was only published for a brief period, the Representative is an especially interesting case-study in relation to travel and travel writing because it was established and owned by the publisher John Murray, arguably the period’s most prolific and prestigious publisher of “voyages and travel” accounts. The article accordingly explores the variety of ways in which travel and travel writing are relayed through the pages of the Representative and discusses the affordances pertaining to such newspaper mediation of contemporary “voyages and travels”. Ultimately it is argued that newspapers like the Representative did more than just relay information about contemporary travellers and travel accounts to the wider public; rather, the way they disseminated such accounts, and the distinctive features of specifically newspaper coverage of these topics, contributed to the emergence in Britain of new forms of geographical imagination and planetary consciousness.