Category Archives: Travel & Geography
Farthest North, Volume I
Author(s): Fridtjof Nansen Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram”,...
Our New Zealand Cousins
Author(s): James Inglis A travelogue of a trip through New Zealand in 1885 with panegyric...
My Travels, A Family Story
Author(s): Maria Hackett This is not a family history. Family histories are invariably dull and...
In the Arctic Seas
Author(s): Francis McClintock In 1857, Lady Jane Franklin, the wife of Sir John Franklin, who...
Highways and Byways in Sussex
Author(s): E. V. Lucas A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around...
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: South America
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter In this book the children are taken by the author upon...
Java and the East Indies
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Another installment in Carpenter’s travels of the world. This time we...
By Ox Team to California – A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860
Author(s): Lavinia Honeyman Porter Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent...
Letters from the West
Author(s): James Hall James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and...
Desirable Alien at Home in Germany
Author(s): Ford Madox FordViolet Hunt A travel journal of a year the author spent in...
Our National Parks
Author(s): John Muir This book is a collection of sketches first published in the Atlantic...
Cycling in the Alps
Author(s): C. L. Freeston A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days...
Cairo to Kisumu
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Another chapter In Carpenter’s continuing tour of the world, this time...
Korea and Her Neighbors
Author(s): Isabella L. Bird In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a...
Essays of Travel
Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson This book includes fascinating essays by Robert Louis Stevenson about his...
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara
Author(s): Samuel Gamble Bayne This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of...
Domestic Manners of the Americans
Author(s): Frances Milton Trollope Next to de Alexis de Tocquville’s almost contemporary Democracy in America,...
Oregon Trail
Author(s): Francis Parkman, Jr. The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month...
Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Author(s): Matthew A. Henson In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting,...
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Author(s): Mark Twain Following the Equator (American English title) or More Tramps Abroad (English title)...
Guide Book of Art, Architecture, and Historic Interests in Pennsylvania
Author(s): Margaretta Archambault This book was curated by the State Federation of Pennsylvania Women for...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5
Author(s): National Geographic Society National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3:The Arctic Cruise of the...
Carpenter’s World Travels: Australia, New Zealand and Some Other Islands of the South Seas
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Travel stories of the land “Down Under” from 100 years ago....
Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East
Author(s): Alexander William Kinglake A classic of Victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey...
Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
Author(s): Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson’s wit and tongue-in-cheek expressions make this record of the economy,...
Heart of London
Author(s): H. C. V. Morton An ever-muttering prisoned storm, The heart of London beating warm....
Gertrude Bell
Author(s): Ronald BodleyLorna Hearst A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was...
Prowling About Panama
Author(s): George A. Miller In 1903, Panama became a brand new state in Central America...
Canoeing in the Wilderness
Author(s): Henry David Thoreau A highly descriptive and engaging narrative from one of America’s beloved...
North America Vol. 1
Author(s): Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English...