Travel

Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…

by Francis Bond Head Read by Sue Anderson 4.6
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…

Tales of a Traveller

by Washington Irving Read by Greg Giordano 4.6
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of peopl…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents:Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardine…

Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft

by Lindsay Anderson Read by David Wales 4.5
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …

A Year Amongst the Persians

by Edward Granville Browne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and …

Six Months In Mexico

by Nellie Bly Read by James K. White 4.5
This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…

Audubon's Western Journal

by John Woodhouse Audubon Read by David Wales 4.5
John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's Ca…

Japan and Korea

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.4
Another fascinating volume in the author’s quest to travel the world. This time we are taken to Japan and Korea for an in-depth look at thei…

With Sack and Stock in Alaska

by George Broke Read by Phil Schempf 4.3
In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the …

The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska

by Filippo De Filippi Read by Phil Schempf 4.8
Although Mount St. Elias had been known to native Americans for thousands of years and to Europeans since 1741 when Vitus Bering saw the pea…

Daylight Land

by William Henry Harrison Murray Read by Keith Salis 5
Mr. Murray takes us on an adventure that he has recorded as payment to his family in exchange for their permission to embark upon it. In thi…

Lands of the Caribbean

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB
The author ventures to the islands of the Caribbean for yet another volume in his travel series. This time we visit the countries of Panama,…

Travel Collection

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a v…

With Poor Immigrants to America

by Stephen Graham Read by Ted Lienhart 5
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…

Vacations

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…

From Bangkok to Bombay

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.2
Another entry in Carpenter's geographical reader series with information on the peoples, cultures, and everyday life of this Asian area. - …

Tenting To-Night

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by David Wales 4.6
Tenting To-Night invites listeners to join Mary Roberts Rinehart on an evocative journey through the breathtaking landscapes of Glacier Nati…

The Story of London

by Henry B. Wheatley Read by Paul Lawley-Jones 4.5
A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to early modern times, focusing on the daily lives of its citizens, the a…

Great Pirate Stories

by Joseph Lewis French Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …

Carpenter's World Travels

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.2
Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become ou…

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