Exploration
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…
The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska
Although Mount St. Elias had been known to native Americans for thousands of years and to Europeans since 1741 when Vitus Bering saw the pea…
The Last Secrets
The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two dec…
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast invites listeners on a historical journey through the exploration of the Canadian Pacific coast, British Colum…
Southern Arabia
Southern Arabia recounts a threatening four-month journey into North Eastern Ethiopia by the Bents. These brave travelers were the first to …
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…
From Pole to Pole
This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…
With Carson and Fremont
This is another book in the Trail Blazer Series. Being the adventures, in the years 1842–’43–’44, on trail over mountains and through desert…
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers
An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…
The Cariboo Trail
Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first di…
North-Pole Voyages
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
The purpose of this book is to give to its readers a living knowledge of some of the wonders of the country and continent in which they live…
The National Geographic Magazine
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, April 1899.It includes the following articles:The Sources of the Saskatchew…
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…
How the Codex Was Found
"The narrative of these two journeys is of special interest, because the first one, that made by my twin sister, Mrs. Lewis, and myself…
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. - …
On The Trail
Lina and Adelia Beard, co-founders of the first American girls' scouting group, originally called the Girl Scout Society, then the Girl Pion…
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 …
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…
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…