Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
Stories of California
This is a collection of short sketches about the state of California. They cover everything from historical vignettes to stories of the flo…
American Notes for General Circulation
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June, 1842. Wh…
Twilight in Italy
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads
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
Heroines of Travel documents the bravery and fortitude of a number of Victorian-era women who showed that adventure and exciting experiences…
The Romance of Piracy
The Library of Romance is a series of books concerning the romance of scientific facts, be it biology, chemistry, history, or politics. This…
A Gringo In Mañana-Land
Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist, embassy attaché, stoker on ships, miner, stowaway, bandit’s prisoner in…
Carpenter's World Travels
A travelogue through the countries of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden for young and old alike. Interesting big cities a…
The Story of Sitka
The Author recounts life in the great northwest in Sitka, Alaska "Sitka of the Russians" a century ago with insights into Sitka's …
Travels in Brazil
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
Rambles Beyond Railways
Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who is the companion of his ramble, explored Cornwall together, on foot in the…
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…
Our Little Austrian Cousin
In this volume I have endeavored to give my young readers a clearer and a more intimate knowledge than is usually possessed of the vast terr…
Zone Policeman 88
Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World, he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Pa…
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 …
Kamakura
'Kamakura is nothing if she has no history, writes Japanese novelist, poet, and essayist Yone Noguchi. At the turn of the 20th century, Kama…
The Story of Geographical Discovery
This book was first published in 1897. It's a short work, but it encompasses a vast subject—nothing less than determining the detailed geogr…
With Sack and Stock in Alaska
In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the …
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the December Number. It includes the following articles: The Geography of the Sout…
From Bangkok to Bombay
Another entry in Carpenter's geographical reader series with information on the peoples, cultures, and everyday life of this Asian area. - …