Travel & Geography
Over The Rocky Mountains To Alaska
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Charles Warren Stoddard
This 1899 travelogue is by one of the era’s most popular travel writers. A peek in how travel used to be. - Summary by David Wales
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the July Number. It includes the following articles:* The Work of the United State…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the June Number. It includes the following articles:* The Seine, the Meuse, and th…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles: Storms and Weather Forecasts…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the September Number.It includes the following articles:Modification of the Great …
Our New Zealand Cousins
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James Inglis
A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric descriptions of the scenery, elucidations of the progress the country had …
Man and Nature on the Broads
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Arthur Henry Patterson
From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosy…
In The Footprints Of The Padres
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Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…
The Land of Enchantment
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Lilian Whiting
Lilian Whiting, renowned journalist and editor, takes the reader on a grand circle tour of the American West. Beginning with Colorado, Ms. W…
Tafereelen uit Italie
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Charles Dickens
In 1844 reisde Charles Dickens samen met zijn gezin enkele maanden naar Frankrijk en Italie waar hij Rome, Napels, Venetie en Florence bezoc…
The National Geographic Magazine
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National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It includes the following articles: A Winter Voyage Through The St…
South-Sea Idyls
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Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873)…
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress
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John Dryden Kuser
This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…
The Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury
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Julia Mary Cartwright
"This account of the Way trodden by the pilgrims of the Middle Ages through the South of England to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterb…
Travels in Brazil
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Henry Koster
A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man's travels within Brazil during the period shortly before Brazil's independe…
Going Abroad?
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Robert Luce
Going abroad for a holiday or business is always exciting, but we can only imagine how exciting it would have been in 1900 to board a steame…
The British Isles and the Baltic States
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another in a long series by the author focusing on the British Isles and a few chapters on Germany, Poland and other countries of the Baltic…
Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland
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John William Norie
Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant v…
The Land of the Broads
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Ernest Richard Suffling and Ernest R. Suffling
The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterw…