Travel & Geography
Twilight in Italy
Read by Peter Tucker
D. H. Lawrence
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
Carpenter's World Travels: Australia, New Zealand and Some Other Islands of the…
Read by BettyB
Frank G. Carpenter
Travel stories of the land "Down Under" from 100 years ago. Native life and scenery and commerce of islands such as Tonga and Fiji…
Italian Hours
Read by Barbara Baker
Henry James
A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2
California Desert Trails
Read by Steven Seitel
Joseph Smeaton Chase
"I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other principal feature of California's topography, the dreamy, dreary desert. Long ago, …
China and the Chinese
Read by Holly
Edmund Plauchut
Edmund Plauchut spent many years in China and gives an account of his observations of the places, people, and culture as he experienced them…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II)
Read by Steven Seitel
Roald Amundsen
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 Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night
Read by Celine Major
Julie de Marguerittes
Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works …
Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century
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W. H. Davenport Adams
The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as…
Scilly and its Legends
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Henry John Whitfield
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…
History of a Six Weeks' Tour
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Rou…
Cape Cod
Read by PhyllisV
Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…
From Bangkok to Bombay (Siam, French Indo-China, Burma and Hindustan)
Read by BettyB
Frank G. Carpenter
Another entry in Carpenter's geographical reader series with information on the peoples, cultures, and everyday life of this Asian area. - …
In Quest of El Dorado
Read by Steven Seitel
Stephen Graham
Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps …
Young Americans Abroad
Read by Sibella Denton
John Overton Choules
It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with th…
Carpenter's World Travels: Alaska Our Northern Wonderland
Read by BettyB
Frank G. Carpenter
Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become ou…
Glimpses of Bengal
Read by Bhavya
Rabindranath Tagore
The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India.
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads
Read by Steve C
Tickner Edwardes
Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southe…
Cycling in the Alps
Read by Phil Benson
C. L. Freeston
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…
Things Seen in Venice
Read by Phil Benson
Lonsdale Ragg and Laura Marie Ragg
Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…
The Log Of A Sea-Waif: Being Recollections Of The First Four Years Of My Sea Li…
Read by David Wales
Frank Thomas Bullen
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…