Category Archives: Travel & Geography
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1
Author(s): John Lloyd Stephens The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest...
Explorers and Travellers
Author(s): Adolphus W. Greely “Explorers and Travellers” is a collection of short biographies of some...
Carpenter’s World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Author’s account of travels through Algeria, Tunisia, Tripoli and the Sahara...
Lady’s Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53
Author(s): Ellen Clacy “If you have visions of a middle-aged parasol-bearing lady smiling sweetly from...
Life In California, Excerpted From ‘Roughing It’ By Mark Twain
Author(s): Mark Twain This recording is chapters 56 through 61 plus 78 of the 1879...
Robert O’Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860
Author(s): Andrew Jackson A non-fictional account of Burke and Wills’s 1860 expedition to cross the...
Gold Hunting in Alaska
Author(s): Joseph Grinnell In 1898, naturalist, Joseph Grinnell joins a company of twenty men bound...
Four Months in a Sneak-Box
Author(s): Nathaniel H. Bishop The kind reception by the American press of the author’s first...
East by West, Vol. 2
Author(s): Sir Henry W. Lucy East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an...
Little Swiss Sojourn
Author(s): William Dean Howells A charming brief account of a two months’ autumnal stay on...
Opening the West with Lewis and Clark
Author(s): Edwin L. Sabin One of the significant and astounding explorations, in 1804-1806, was the...
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution
Author(s): John Dryden Kuser This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of...
Diversions in Sicily
Author(s): Henry Festing Jones Samuel Butler’s biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and...
Our Search for a Wilderness, An Account of Two Ornithological Expeditions to Venezuela and British Guiana
Author(s): William BeebeBlair Niles In 1908-1909, Mary Blair Beebe and her husband, C. William Beebe...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 1-2
Author(s): National Geographic Society National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 April 1890.:* On the...
From Bangkok to Bombay (Siam, French Indo-China, Burma and Hindustan)
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Another entry in Carpenter’s geographical reader series with information on the...
Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Khedivé
Author(s): Chien TaoFoster Barham Zincke Those particulars of the History of Egypt, and of its...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 – 01. January 1899
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, January 1899.It...
Eastern Pilgrims: The Travels of Three Ladies
Author(s): Agnes Smith Lewis “When two friends and myself resolved, in the summer of 1868,...
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Published in 1796, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway,...
First Successful Ascent of Mt. Rainier, 1870
Author(s): Hazard Stevens Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump, aided by the Indian guide Sluiskin,...
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Europe
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter The book tries to give its young readers a living knowledge...
Brazil and the River Plate in 1868
Author(s): William Hadfield This work makes no pretentions to literary merit, but, as its title...
Historic Waterways
Author(s): Reuben Gold Thwaites Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox...
Letters from England, 1846-1849
Author(s): Elizabeth Davis Bancroft Elizabeth Bancroft went to England with her husband, historian George Bancroft,...
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers
Author(s): Frederick Schwatka An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads...
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia
Author(s): Giovanni Battista Belzoni Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and...
Farthest North, Volume II
Author(s): Fridtjof Nansen Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship “Fram”,...
In the Andamans and Nicobars
Author(s): C. Boden Kloss A glimpse of the indigenous people, rich flora and fauna and...
Book of American Explorers
Author(s): Thomas Wentworth Higginson This book tells the story of exploration in America in the...