Exploration
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Read by Ted Lienhart
John Hanning Speke
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the …
Read by Carol Pelster
Washington Irving
Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…
Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book Of Travel
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Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell traveled extensively in the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, studying the archaeology and ant…
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was, arguably, the first person to explore North and South America from Cape Hatteras to Uruguay or Argentina, 35° nort…
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia and Laos During the…
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Henri Mouhot
Details of an expedition across Southeast Asia. Includes discussions of peoples, customs journies, buildings and biological observations. - …
Letters from the West
Read by Ted Lienhart
James Hall
James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…
By Desert Ways to Baghdad
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Louisa Jebb Wilkins
Every age witnesses the birth of some great soul. Sometimes events bring these people to the attention of the world. More often than not, th…
Across the Andes
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Charles Johnson Post
“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…
In the Andamans and Nicobars
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C. Boden Kloss
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 …
Los Lusíadas
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Luís Vaz de Camões
¿Qué puede ser mejor que la descripción de viajes de exploración a tierras desconocidas escrito en verso? Esta c…
Reise durch den Stillen Ozean
Read by Claus Misfeldt
Max Buchner
Max Buchner war ein deutscher Arzt, Ethnograph und Forschungsreisender. Im Jahr 1875 brach er zu einer Weltreise auf, die er als Schiffsarzt…
Farthest North
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Charles Lanman
Covers the life of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood with emphasis on his attempt to reach "Farthest North" as part of the Greely Ex…
The Northward Course of Empire
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Northward Course of Empire was written to promote the idea of a new wave of civil expansion into the Arctic Circle, a region generally c…
The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 2
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James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 2
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Lyman Copeland Draper
A 1903 reprint of a volume published in 1856, edited by Lyman Draper. Contents recorded include: three memoirs of early 19th century Wiscons…
Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 1
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Historical Society Of Michigan
The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…
Lapérouse
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Ernest Scott
Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker
A Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, Californ…
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John Muir
This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 1
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Lyman Copeland Draper
The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin achieved U.S. statehood. The Secretary, Lyman Draper, began in …
Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China Vol. 1
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George Bennett
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…