Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Eastern Pilgrims
"When two friends and myself resolved, in the summer of 1868, to absent ourselves for a year from home, for the purpose of visiting [th…
The Carpenter's World Travels
Join a journey through the Holy Land and Syria as it existed in the early 20th century. Visiting and learning of Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Pales…
Adrift on an Ice-Pan
This autobiographical work describes the author's harrowing experience caught on a small drifting piece of ice, while crossing a frozen bay …
Carpenter's World Travels
Author's account of travels through Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli and the Sahara Desert with stories about the people, climate, industry and cul…
The First Voyage of James Cook
Following his discovery and circumnavigation of New Zealand recorded in Volume 1, Cook sailed westwards to Australia, whose east coast was a…
Scilly and its Legends
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…
Travels in France
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst o…
Traveling Sketches
In this small book, Anthony Trollope describes with his characteristic wit and satire the different types of travelers commonly encountered …
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled
This volume deals with a series of journeys taken with a dog team over the winter trails in the interior of Alaska. The title might have cla…
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy
A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making -- all far fr…
Essays of Travel
This book includes fascinating essays by Robert Louis Stevenson about his travels in England, Europe, and the United States. They provide ev…
The Life of a Fossil Hunter
Charles Sternberg was an American fossil collector and paleontologist. He was active in both fields from 1876 to 1928, and collected fossils…
A Shepherd's Life
Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Ca…
Life In California
This recording is chapters 56 through 61 plus 78 of the 1879 edition of 'Roughing It' by Mark Twain (1835-1910). The chapters contain in Tw…
The Soul of London
'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…
Lands of the Andes and the Desert
Another volume in Carpenter's lengthy series of his travels around the world in the early 20th century.This volume covers specific countries…
Sea and Sardinia
A travel book describing a journey taken by Lawrence and his wife Frieda (whom he refers to as the Queen Bee) by sea from Sicily to Sardinia…
Canada and Newfoundland
Another entry in Carpenter's series of World Travels focusing on Canada and Newfoundland. (Summary by Betty B)
The Wild North Land
This book was published in 1910.Not only do Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, but it seems that sometimes they venture into…
Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
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…