Exploration
The Mystery of Easter Island
To this day, Easter Island, with its magnificent stone structures, remains an enigma. Katherine Routledge was part of an exhaustive archaeol…
The Book of the Ocean
The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such a…
A Woman's Journey Round the World
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated i…
My Life at Sea
The author began his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the age of the Black Ball liners, the Baltimore clipper-ships, and those perfect speci…
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…
The Journal of Lewis and Clarke
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition
In 1860, Robert O'Hara Burke and his team embarked on a bold expedition to traverse the Australian continent from south to north, aiming to …
The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…
"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…
Into the Frozen South
James Marr was a Boy Scout selected to go along with Sir Ernest Shackleton aboard the Quest in 1921 for the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition to …
The Saga of the Greenlanders
The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North Americ…
Pioneer work in the Alps of New Zealand
“Situated as we were at Camp 2, in fine rata bush, with a luxuriant undergrowth of tree-ferns and other plants - which in England would be c…
The Story of the Barbary Corsairs
The Barbary pirates, sometimes called Barbary corsairs or Ottoman corsairs, were Ottoman and Berber pirates and privateers who operated from…
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
A record of a voyage of discovery and adventure, beginning in Siberia and continuing to Northern China in the late 19th Century. - Summary b…
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…
A Voyage to the South Sea
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in Hi…
Abandoned
Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a …
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China
Details of an expedition across Southeast Asia. Includes discussions of peoples, customs journies, buildings and biological observations. - …
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent), Cook returns to New Zealand via the Friendly Island…
Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover the secret of producing tea and securing plants for propagation outside…
How It Flies
In these pages, by means of simple language and suitable pictures, the author has told the story of the Ships of the Air. He has explained t…