Travel & Geography
The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances
Read by Sue Anderson
John Charles Van Dyke
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "…
Across Asia on a Bicycle
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Thomas Gaskell Allen
In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 …
The Red Reign
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Kellogg Durland
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara
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Samuel Gamble Bayne
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…
Letters from England
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Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamic years in European history. As …
The Pilgrimage Of Etheria
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Etheria
This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It…
Saunterings In And About London
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Max Schlesinger, Max Schlesingertranslated Byotto Von Wenckstern and Max Schlesingertranslated By Otto Von Wenckstern
A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popu…
The American Far West
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Various
Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An an…
American Notes
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens records his impressions of America during his 1842 journey. - Summary by Brad "Hamlet" Filippone
Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
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Austen Layard
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…
The Book of the Ocean
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Ernest Ingersoll
The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such a…
The Secret of the Sahara
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Rosita Forbes
In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one ha…
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia
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Ellen Clacy
"If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852,…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, August 1899.It includes the following articles:Shishaldin as a Field for Ex…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, August 1898.It includes the following articles:Papagueria, by W. J. McGeeG…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, November 1899.It includes the following articles:The Alaskan Boundary, by H…
Brazil and the River Plate
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William Hadfield
This work makes no pretentions to literary merit, but, as its title indicates, is simply a narrative descriptive of the progress of the coun…
Needwood Forest
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Francis Noel Clarke Mundy
Needwood Forest is a book written by Francis Noel Clarke Mundy in 1776. Mundy describes the forest's natural beauty, its flora and fauna, an…
Gems of the Northwest
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company
Complete Title: "Gems of the Northwest: A Brief Description of Prominent Places of Interest Along the Lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee &…
A Girl's Ride in Iceland
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Ethel Brilliana Tweedie
Join Ethel and her four traveling companions as they visit Iceland in 1887. Rough seas, cold temperatures, and difficult riding do not deter…