Exploration
My Friends the Savages
The author writes his experiences with the Sakai peoples in the Malay peninsula (SE Asia), focusing on their lifestyle and customs. What imp…
Horizons West
Horizons West is a captivating radio docu-drama that explores the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. This engaging program brings to life …
The Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…
Lands of the Caribbean
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,…
Syria: the Desert and the Sown
Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…
National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XII, March 1901.It includes the following articles:Abyssinia - The Country And…
The Third Voyage of James Cook
Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…
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…
Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation
"The [Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee] shall conduct an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans a…
The Life of Columbus
A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his early years, through discoveries in the New World, to his death in 1506. - S…
The Book of Buried Treasure
Described by the author as: BEING A TRUE HISTORY OF THE GOLD, JEWELS, AND PLATE OF PIRATES, GALLEONS, ETC., WHICH ARE SOUGHT FOR TO THIS DAY…
Across Asia on a Bicycle
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 …
Travels in New Zealand
“Let the reader imagine a deep lake of a blue colour, surrounded by verdant hills; in the lake several islets, some showing the bare rock, o…
Trailmakers of the Northwest
Published in 1921, this book recounts the exploration of the Canadian Northwest and the history of the region's fur trade. Drawing heavily o…
The Romance of Modern Exploration
It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today. Less laborious no doubt it is in some details when Mandevill…
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts of his first two expeditions into East Africa in the 1850s. Vol…
True Tales of Arctic Heroism
The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely's time. In 1912, Greely publishe…
Lapérouse
Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. - Summary by Barbara Baker
Short Nonfiction Collection
"Fine experience lies at one's own doorstep" writes Raymond S. Spears, suggesting that boating on the Mississippi River offers &qu…
Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry was a significant explorer and adventurer in a period of enlightenment and expansion of European trade and knowledge of the wor…