Travel
- Explorations in Nature and Travel
- Pioneering Journeys: Memoirs of Exploration
- Journeys Through History
- Epic Journeys of Exploration
- Philosophical Travelogues
The British Isles and the Baltic States
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…
The Falcon on the Baltic
A coasting voyage boyage in a small yacht from Hammersmith in the UK to Copenhagen and back, including various visits to places on the Balti…
The Journal of Lewis and Clarke
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
The Turkish Embassy Letters
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) was an English aristocrat and woman of letters. In 1716, she accompanied her husband to Vi…
From Pole to Pole
This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…
Italian Hours
A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2
Our Old Home
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …
Northern Trails
The reader who follows these trails will find them leading into a new country, a land of space and silence where it is good to be, away up a…
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…
A Woman's Journey Round the World
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated i…
White Mountain Trails
"A survey of the White Mountains of New Hampshire from a naturalist's standpoint, useful alike to the tourist, the "tramper" …
The National Geographic Magazine
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…
Cape Cod
Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and loc…
The American Far West
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…
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers
An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn detailing his first impressions of the country he found so fascinat…
Impariamo l'italiano a Tropea
Do you love Italy and dream of it every night? Would you like to visit one of the most beautiful Italian sea towns? What if you could refres…
The Boy Travellers in Australasia
ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO THE SANDWICH, MARQUESAS, SOCIETY, SAMOAN, AND FEEJEE ISLANDS, AND THROUGH THE COLONIES OF NEW ZEALA…
Carpenter's World Travels
Author's account of travels through Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli and the Sahara Desert with stories about the people, climate, industry and cul…
A Voice From The Main Deck
Samuel Leech was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few wh…