Travel

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty

by Sir John Barrow Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement

by Samuel Butler Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 5
Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860, landing at Lyttleton, the main port for the Canterbury Settlement. Altho…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XI, January to December 1900.

Canada and Newfoundland

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.4
Another entry in Carpenter's series of World Travels focusing on Canada and Newfoundland. (Summary by Betty B)

Scilly and its Legends

by Henry John Whitfield Read by Timothy Ferguson 5
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…

Korea and Her Neighbors

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.4
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels th…

Specimen Days

by Walt Whitman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

Florida Trails

by Winthrop Packard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given us such accounts as Wild Pastures, Wood Wanderings, and White Mountain Trails now he takes …

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America

by Alexander Von Humboldt Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.8
In Volume 2 of “The Personal Narrative”, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland continue their travels, beginning at L…

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World

by James Cook Read by David Cole 4.8
Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…

Italian Hours

by Henry James Read by Barbara Baker 5
A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2

Your United States

by Arnold Bennett Read by David Wales 4.4
Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist, but he also worked in other fields such as journal…

Notes of An East Coast Naturalist

by Arthur Henry Patterson Read by TND 5
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and faun…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 April 1890.: * On the Telegraphic Determinations of Longitude by the Bureau of Navigation* Re…

The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire

by Thomas Wallace Knox Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. Subtitle: Adventures o…

Stories of California

by Ella M. Sexton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is a collection of short sketches about the state of California. They cover everything from historical vignettes to stories of the flo…

Lift-Luck on Southern Roads

by Tickner Edwardes Read by Steve C 4.8
Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southe…

Heroines of Travel

by Frank Mundell Read by Steve C 4.2
Heroines of Travel documents the bravery and fortitude of a number of Victorian-era women who showed that adventure and exciting experiences…

The Falcon on the Baltic

by Edward Frederick Knight Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A coasting voyage boyage in a small yacht from Hammersmith in the UK to Copenhagen and back, including various visits to places on the Balti…

< 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 >