Travel & Geography
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia
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Ellen Clacy
"If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from her carriage as she tours Bendigo think again. In 1852,…
Travel Letters
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Mark Twain
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, …
Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the An…
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Francis Bond Head
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses i…
Korea and Her Neighbors
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Isabella L. Bird
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels th…
Carpenter's Geographical Reader
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Frank G. Carpenter
In this book the children are taken by the author upon a personally conducted tour through the most characteristic parts of the South Americ…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition
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Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by St…
Birdseye Views of Far Lands
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James T. Nichols
Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of maki…
The Glories of Ireland
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Joseph Dunn
A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced…
Peeps at Many Lands
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R. Talbot Kelly
Peeps at Many Lands invites listeners on a captivating journey through Egypt, as seen through the eyes of R. Talbot Kelly. This travelogue, …
Lancashire
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Francis Archibald Bruton
The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…
The Cruise of the Alerte
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Edward Frederick Knight
The book describes a voyage undertaken in 1889 by an English barrister Edward Frederick Knight to the South Seas. This delightful story take…
Letters from Hawaii
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Mark Twain
By the time Mark Twain worked as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, he had held positions with other newspapers in Nevada and Calif…
In the North Woods of Maine
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Elmer Erwin Thomas
Two fifteen-year-old boys---the younger of whom may have been fourteen---decide to hunt and trap away from home in the north woods of Maine.…
Historic Waterways
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.This volume is the record of six hundred miles of …
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to May, 1895.* Geographic Progress of Civilization - Annual Ad…
The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
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Agnes Edwards and Agnes Edwards Rothery
A delightful trip from Boston through a dozen South Shore towns to Plymouth, stopping in each to explore a bit of the local history and 'mod…
Across Mongolian Plains
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Roy Chapman Andrews
An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for …
Travel Collection
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Various
A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a v…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3:The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889.The Law of Storms, co…
Under The Sky In California
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Charles Francis Saunders
This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This…