Exploration
Columbus
This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetr…
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador
Mina Benson Hubbard set out in 1905 on a 576 mile canoe journey across the interior of Labrador with the assistance of four guides. Her husb…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, April 1898, the Klondike Number.It includes the following articles:The Nor…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, the March Number.It includes the following articles:Dwellings of the Saga-…
Through Timbuctu and Across the Great Sahara
Through Timbuctu and across the great Sahara: an account of an adventurous journey of exploration from Sierra Leone to the source of the Nig…
Across the Andes
“The legion that never was listed,”The soft-lilting rhythm and song,The starlight, and shadowy tropics,The palms—and all that belong;The unk…
The Voyagers
In this 1926 Newbery Honor Book, Pádraic Colum gathers several little-known folk lore tales of exploration on the Atlantic Ocean and …
Invention And Discovery
"In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives an…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles: Storms and Weather Forecasts…
Travel Stories Retold
St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth – early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-w…
Maw's Vacation
Times has changed! Maw has only known hard work her whole life. She’s been married to Paw for 40 years, helping raise crops, raising childre…
Michigan Historical Collections
The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China
The Work now given to the Public is the result of a series of recent excursions into the interior of the Colony of New South Wales, at inter…
In the Andamans and Nicobars
A glimpse of the indigenous people, rich flora and fauna and the beauty of the islands as recorded by a zoologist, which are fast depleting …
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number.It includes the following articles:Modification of the Great …
Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures
Gertrude Bell traveled extensively in the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, studying the archaeology and ant…
Adventurers of the Far North
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the No…
Pilgrimage to India
Ven Ajahn Bram led a group of Aussie pilgrims to India to visit the sacred places that are important locations in Buddhas life. This trip wa…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, August 1899.It includes the following articles:Shishaldin as a Field for Ex…
We
"We" is comprised of two parts. The first ten chapters (sections) where he traces his steady and remarkable genius for flying are …