Category Archives: Travel & Geography
Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland, August 1773
Author(s): William Hutchinson In the summer of 1773, lawyer and antiquarian William Hutchinson set out...
Gems of the Northwest
Author(s): Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company Complete Title: “Gems of the Northwest: A...
Glimpses of Bengal
Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various...
North Lancashire
Author(s): John Edward Marr Cambridge County Geographies was a 75 volume series covering the counties...
Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places
Author(s): William Caruthers William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to...
Japanese Girls and Women
Author(s): Alice Bacon A clear and delightful peek into the world of Japanese girls and...
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 1
Author(s): Lyman Copeland Draper The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin...
My Trip Abroad
Author(s): Charlie Chaplin “A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the...
Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World
Author(s): John Timbs Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book....
First Year in Canterbury Settlement
Author(s): Samuel Butler Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860,...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 03. March 1898
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, the March...
Lift-Luck on Southern Roads
Author(s): Tickner Edwardes Here for you is the tale of my latest solitary ramble. The...
Into the Frozen South
Author(s): James William Slessor Marr James Marr was a Boy Scout selected to go along...
One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends
Author(s): Carl Parcher Russell This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite...
Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru
Author(s): Frederick A. Ober Francisco Pizarro (1471 – 1541) was born into poverty, the illegitimate...
Lapérouse
Author(s): Ernest Scott Biography of the eighteenth century French navigator Lapérouse. – Summary by Barbara...
China
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Another fascinating in-depth look at the largest country in the world....
Narrative of the Expedition to Botany-Bay
Author(s): Watkin Tench Watkin Tench was an officer of the British Marines in the First...
Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
Author(s): Meriwether LewisWilliam Clark “The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 20 – Adventurers of the Far North
Author(s): Stephen Leacock This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume...
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Australia and the Islands
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter The purpose of this book is to give the children who...
In Kent with Charles Dickens
Author(s): Thomas Frost By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a...
Old Times on the Mississippi
Author(s): Mark Twain Old Times on the Mississippi is a non-fiction work by Mark Twain....
Rival of the Yosemite – The Cañon of the south fork of King’s River, California
Author(s): John Muir This article, a walking tour of the Cañon including many charcoal illustrations,...
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day
Author(s): Haji A. Browne Knowing the Egyptian as I know him, I cannot but think...
Around the World with the Children
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter An introduction to world geography for young and old alike. Topics...
Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century
Author(s): Hester Lynch Piozzi Selections from the “Observations and reflections made in the course of...
Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
Author(s): Sarah Raymond Herndon “We had spent almost all our money for toll, ferrying and...
Carpenter’s World Travels: Alaska Our Northern Wonderland
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major...
Letters from Egypt
Author(s): Lucie Duff-Gordon As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and...