Category Archives: Travel Fiction

The World’s Desire

Author(s): Andrew LangH. Rider Haggard H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon’s Mines the Allan...

The City of the Sun

Author(s): Tommaso Campanella A dialogue between a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitallers and a Genoese...

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

Author(s): François Rabelais This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (Version 3)

Author(s): Jules Verne Originally published 1870, this recording is from the English translation by Frederick...

Voyage Round the World, Vol. I

Author(s): James Holman This is Volume 1 of 4 volumes. Some territories explored are Sierra...

The Voyage Out (Version 2)

Author(s): Virginia Woolf Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father’s ship and is...

The Secret City

Author(s): Hugh Walpole Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in...

Three Men on the Bummel (Version 2)

Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome Our Friends from Three Men in a Boat, to Say Nothing...

The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars

Author(s): Bampfylde Moore CarewRobert Goadby The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging...

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2)

Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),...

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 3)

Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a...

Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn

Author(s): Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894....

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Author(s): Washington Irving Apart from “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” –...

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Author(s): Sir John Mandeville This is an Elizabethan translation of a 14th century travelogue, allegedly...

The Wheat Princess

Author(s): Jean Webster Marcia Copley, an American Heiress, comes to Rome. Typically for the period,...

Three Men on the Bummel

Author(s): Jerome K. Jerome Some time after “Three Men in a Boat”, George, Harris and...

The Wonderful Year

Author(s): William John Locke Martin Overshaw and Corinna Hastings are leading dull and unproductive lives...

The Road To Mandalay

Author(s): Bithia Mary Croker Sophy Leigh and Douglas Shafto come to Burma on the same...

The Purple Land

Author(s): William Henry Hudson In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across...

The Innocents Abroad

Author(s): Mark Twain Writer/entertainer Garrison Keillor (A Prairie Home Companion) on “The Innocents Abroad”: “…one...

The Rome Express

Author(s): Arthur Griffiths The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just...

The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 4, To California and Return

Author(s): Artemus Ward Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer...

The Europeans

Author(s): Henry James The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published...

The Ghost Camp

Author(s): Rolf Boldrewood Englishman Valentine Blount is traveling in Australia, looking for his fortune. He...

The Caravaners

Author(s): Elizabeth von Arnim From the excellent and creative mind of Elizabeth von Arnim comes...

The Emancipated

Author(s): George Gissing In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in...

The Golden Silence

Author(s): Charles Norris WilliamsonAlice Muriel Williamson Trying to get away from an engagement he had...

The Boy Travellers in Australasia

Author(s): Thomas Wallace Knox ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO THE SANDWICH, MARQUESAS,...

The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire

Author(s): Thomas Wallace Knox An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two...

The Boy Travellers on the Congo

Author(s): Henry Morton StanleyThomas Wallace Knox Frank and Fred share the sights they explore and...