Travel & Geography
Twilight in Italy
Read by Peter Tucker
D. H. Lawrence
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition
Read by Steven Seitel
Roald Amundsen
Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to ma…
The Ins and Outs of Paris
Read by Celine Major
Julie de Marguerittes
Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works …
Celebrated Women Travellers
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W. H. Davenport Adams
The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as…
Scilly and its Legends
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Henry John Whitfield
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…
History of a Six Weeks' Tour
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Rou…
Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe van de Oost-Indische reyse
Read by Anna Simon
Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe
Het "Journael ofte gedenckwaerdige beschrijvinghe" is een scheepsjournaal opgetekend door de Hoornse schipper Willem Ysbrantsz Bon…
In Quest of El Dorado
Read by Steven Seitel
Stephen Graham
Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps …
From Bangkok to Bombay
Read by BettyB
Frank G. Carpenter
Another entry in Carpenter's geographical reader series with information on the peoples, cultures, and everyday life of this Asian area. - …
Cape Cod
Read by PhyllisV
Henry David Thoreau
Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…
Young Americans Abroad
Read by Sibella Denton
John Overton Choules
It’s 1851 and the Crystal Palace Exhibition is on in England. English American the Reverend Dr. Choules leaves Newport, Rhode Island with th…
Glimpses of Bengal
Read by Bhavya
Rabindranath Tagore
The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India.
Carpenter's World Travels
Read by BettyB
Frank G. Carpenter
Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become ou…
Cycling in the Alps
Read by Phil Benson
C. L. Freeston
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular vi…
Things Seen in Venice
Read by Phil Benson
Lonsdale Ragg and Laura Marie Ragg
Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western world, now a much-visited but still romantic city of canals, architecture and art…
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads
Read by Steve C
Tickner Edwardes
Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The journey covers, as you shall see, some two hundred odd miles, through five southe…
Across America by Motorcycle
Read by Barry Eads
C. K. Shepherd
The year is 1919 and Charles Kenilworth ("C.K.") Shepherd, a former British Royal Air Force Captain and World War I veteran, has d…
The Adventures of a Woman Hobo
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Ethel Grace Lynn
Ethel and Dan Lynn wed in San Francisco in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 earthquake. The young couple soon moved to Chicago where she …
The Log Of A Sea-Waif
Read by David Wales
Frank Thomas Bullen
The brilliant author of "The Cruise of the Cachalot" and "Idylls of the Sea" presents in this new work (1899) the contin…