Exploration
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition
Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…
The Hawaiian Archipelago
Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird
Gertrude Bell
A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was most unusual for her time. An adventurous traveler who fell completely…
Fast in the Ice
At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. His rule in writing, being in every…
The Saga of Erik the Red
The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, a…
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…
Yellowstone Expedition
Lt. Gustavus Doane was a member of the 1870 Yellowstone Expedition led by Henry Washburn. Washburn requested military support from General H…
Gold Hunting in Alaska
In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound for Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, from California aboard the schooner Pen…
Yellowstone National Park
Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…
The National Geographic Magazine
National Geographic Magazine Volume 5, articles published in 1893. Contents:Discoverers of America: Annual Address by the President, Gardine…
Celebrated Travels and Travellers
Celebrated Travels and Travellers by Jules Verne invites listeners on an enlightening journey through the age of exploration in the 19th cen…
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…
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…
The Romance of Polar Exploration
While stories of the Polar explorers and their efforts to reach the Poles have been told again and again, the constant renewal of expedition…
Cinq semaines en ballon
Un savant, Samuel Ferguson, accompagné de son domestique Joe et de son ami Dick Kennedy entreprend de traverser le continent africain…
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 …
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley
"It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives, of the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi. Marquette…
Rambles in New Zealand
John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family's mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decide…
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…