Exploration
Pilgrimage to India
Ven Ajahn Bram led a group of Aussie pilgrims to India to visit the sacred places that are important locations in Buddhas life. This trip wa…
Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures
Gertrude Bell traveled extensively in the Middle East in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, studying the archaeology and ant…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, August 1899.It includes the following articles:Shishaldin as a Field for Ex…
Adventures In Research
Enjoy a collection of Old Time Radio programs with the theme of research adventures. These captivating stories take you on a journey through…
We
"We" is comprised of two parts. The first ten chapters (sections) where he traces his steady and remarkable genius for flying are …
The Land of Midian
The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality a…
Adventurers of the Far North
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the No…
Michigan Historical Collections
The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…
American Trail
The American Trail was originally broadcast in 1953 as a 13 part serial. This series chronicles American history, including the exploration …
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the October Number.It includes the following articles:The Enchanted Mesa, by F. W.…
A Rival of the Yosemite
This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations, was published in the Century Illlustrated Monthly Ma…
The American Egypt
Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen…
Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland
Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant v…
A Description of New England
Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted fo…
The Northward Course of Empire
The Northward Course of Empire was written to promote the idea of a new wave of civil expansion into the Arctic Circle, a region generally c…
Williwaw
Williwaw tells the gripping story of naturalist Georg Steller, who embarked on Bering's ill-fated 1741 expedition from Siberia to Alaska. Du…
A Short Walk From London To Venice
A Short Walk from London to Venice is an adaptation of Thomas Coryate’s Crudities, bringing to life the journey of a gentleman from Somerset…
Bring Em' Back Alive
Enjoy four surviving episodes of the 1932 radio series that was created to promote the Frank Buck documentary "Bring Em' Back Alive.&qu…
National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol XII, March 1901.It includes the following articles:Abyssinia - The Country And…
The Last Voyage of the Karluk
In August 1913, the Karluk, flagship of Vilhjalmar Stefansson’s Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–16, became trapped in the ice while saili…