Travel & Geography
A Woman Who Went to Alaska
Read by Karen Commins
May Kellogg Sullivan
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have…
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
Read by Mary Reagan
Nellie Bly
This is a true account by American woman journalist who, in 1889, set out to see whether she could beat the fictional journey in Jules Verne…
Tales Of Lonely Trails
Read by David Wales
Zane Grey
Western novelist Zane Grey (1872-1939) also wrote nonfiction books about the American West and its country. This 1922 tribute to country he…
The Englishwoman in America
Read by Sibella Denton
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chica…
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
Read by Sue Anderson
Sarah Raymond Herndon
“We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and other expenses on the road. It might be a serious matter to be in a strange place…
Old Times on the Mississippi
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. Originally published in serial form in the Atlan…
The Stones of Venice, Volume 1
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John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2
Read by Sue Anderson
John Lloyd Stephens
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood…
A Traveller in War-Time
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Winston Churchill
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill -- the America…
Reise durch England und Schottland
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Johanna Schopenhauer
1819 gerät das Handelshaus, bei dem Johanna Schopenhauer ihr ganzes Geld angelegt hat, in Zahlungsschwierigkeiten. Beim anschließ…
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summa…
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Read by Martin Geeson
Laurence Sterne
After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …
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…