Travel & Geography
The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska
Read by Phil Schempf
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…
The Cruise of the Falcon - A Voyage to South America in a 30-Ton Yacht
Read by Steven Seitel
Edward Frederick Knight
In this fine sailing and exploring yarn, Edward Frederick Knight (1852-1925), sometime English barrister, journalist, sportsman, and amateur…
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 …
Sea and Sardinia
Read by Anthony Ogus
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
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
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
Read by Sue Anderson
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
Read by Frank Lennon
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
Read by Sibella Denton
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
Read by David Wales
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…
Saunterings In And About London
Read by David Wales
Max Schlesinger, Max Schlesingertranslated Byotto Von Wenckstern and Max Schlesingertranslated By Otto Von Wenckstern
A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popu…
The American Far West: Seven Mid-Nineteenth Century Views From Abroad
Read by David Wales
Various
Charles Dickens started and edited a magazine called All The Year Round, a weekly collection of articles on a wide variety of topics. An an…
American Notes (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens records his impressions of America during his 1842 journey. - Summary by Brad "Hamlet" Filippone
The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara
Read by Steven Seitel
Rosita Forbes
In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one ha…
A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
Read by Annise
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,…
Mark Twain's Travel Letters from 1891-92
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
This collection of Mark Twain travel letters was compiled by Barbara Schmidt for her website, TwainQuotes.com. According to his biographer, …
Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
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Austen Layard
Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…