Exploration
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 …
A Book of American Explorers
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the…
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…
The Wild North Land
This book was published in 1910.Not only do Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun, but it seems that sometimes they venture into…
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 Malay Archipelago
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…
Hunting In Many Lands
The first volume published by the Boone and Crockett Club, entitled "American Big Game Hunting," confined itself to sport on the A…
The Last Journals of David Livingstone
Known primarily as a missionary, David Livingstone headed into the wilds of Central Africa, intending to find the course of the Nile. Docume…
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…
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…
Stories of North Pole Adventure
This volume does not pretend to be a history of Artic exploration. My aim has been to narrate some of the most thrilling incidents of Polar …
With Sack and Stock in Alaska
In 1888, George Broke with Harold Topham and William Williams, made the first exploration of the Alaskan Mt. St. Elias range, including the …
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,…
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…
By Desert Ways to Baghdad
Every age witnesses the birth of some great soul. Sometimes events bring these people to the attention of the world. More often than not, th…
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…
Shores of the Polar Sea
"THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION of 1875 left England on 29th May, crossed the Atlantic to Davis Straits in a succession of storms, and entered t…
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…
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…
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…