Travel & Geography
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Read by Patrick Wallace
Robert Louis Stevenson
A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson's adventures on an extended walk through uplands and mountains in south-western Fr…
A Year Amongst the Persians
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Edward Granville Browne
Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and …
An Account of Egypt by Herodotus
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Herodotus
HERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C. Of his life we know…
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1
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Thomas Stevens
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Franc…
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Read by William Tomcho
Isabel Anderson
Isabel Anderson has written a most interesting travelogue of Hawaii and The Philippines. Actually it is more of a history lesson. Anyone wit…
Travels in West Africa
Read by Nathalie J.
Mary H. Kingsley
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Afric…
Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa
Read by Dirk Weber
Karl Theodor Stöpel
Eine Reise in das Innere der Insel Formosa und die erste Besteigung des Niitakayama (Mount Morrison) Weihnachten 1898, so der vollständ…
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
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Lafcadio Hearn
In an introductory paragraph, Lafcadio Hearn declares his intention: "The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than …
Letters of Travel
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Rudyard Kipling
Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan and Egypt) by the Nobel Prize winning author of the Just So Stor…
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Frances Milton Trollope
Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least noto…
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-madinah and Meccah
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Richard Francis Burton
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hyp…
Pictures from Italy
Read by Anthony Ogus
Charles Dickens
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…
The Romance of Missionary Heroism
Read by David Leeson
John C Lambert
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …
Eine Mont-Blanc-Besteigung
Read by Dirk Weber
Paul Verne
Paul Verne war der Bruder von Jules Verne. Er verfaßte für die Buch Reihe seines Bruders zwei Reiseberichte, die zusammen mit Jul…
On a Chinese Screen
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W. Somerset Maugham
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
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Ezra Meeker
This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)
Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska
Read by David Wales
Rockwell Kent
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though a…
Diary of a Pilgrimage
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Jerome K. Jerome
A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see…
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora
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George Hamilton
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty …
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Africa, its Past and FutureReports on:Geography of …