Travel & Geography
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Africa
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Frank G. Carpenter
Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering the continent by steamer and train and other mo…
Southern Arabia
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Theodore Bent
Southern Arabia recounts a threatening four-month journey into North Eastern Ethiopia by the Bents. These brave travelers were the first to …
Sir Francis Drake
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Julian Corbett
In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596)…
Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East
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Alexander William Kinglake
A classic of Victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Europe
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Frank G. Carpenter
The book tries to give its young readers a living knowledge of Europe. The author conducts tours through various parts of Europe giving a gl…
Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea
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James O. Brayman
There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of t…
Collection: Tales of the Cities
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Various
This is a collection of city stories, fiction or non-fiction, in English and published before 1923. Contributions have been chosen by the re…
The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska
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Filippo De Filippi
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…
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
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Watkin Tench
Watkin Tench was an officer of the British Marines in the First Fleet to settle NSW. This is an interesting and entertaining account of his …
The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht
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Edward Frederick Knight
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…
Sea and Sardinia
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D. H. Lawrence
A travel book describing a journey taken by Lawrence and his wife Frieda (whom he refers to as the Queen Bee) by sea from Sicily to Sardinia…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands
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Frank G. Carpenter
The purpose of this book is to give the children who read it a living knowledge of Australia and the chief islands of the world, and especia…
Idle Days in Patagonia
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William Henry Hudson
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period …
Across Asia on a Bicycle
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Thomas Gaskell Allen
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 …
The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances
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John Charles Van Dyke
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "…
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia
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Kellogg Durland
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara
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Samuel Gamble Bayne
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…
Letters from England, 1846-1849
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Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft, for three of the most dynamic years in European history. As …
The Pilgrimage Of Etheria
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Etheria
This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It…