Category Archives: Travel & Geography
Early explorations in New South Wales: A collection
Author(s): Various In the early days of the penal colony at Sydney, rumour was rife...
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 2
Author(s): Lyman Copeland Draper A 1903 reprint of a volume published in 1856, edited by...
Peaks of Shala
Author(s): Rose Wilder Lane This book was published in 1923. From the author’s own Introduction:...
Japan and Korea
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Another fascinating volume in the author’s quest to travel the world....
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4
Author(s): National Geographic Society National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics...
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 1
Author(s): Jules Verne The famous writer of great adventure stories Jules Verne wrote also several...
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: North America
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter The purpose of this book is to give to its readers...
Dog-Watches At Sea
Author(s): Stanton Henry King Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to...
East by West: a Journey in the Recess
Author(s): Henry W. Lucy East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account...
American Adventures
Author(s): Julian Street AMERICAN ADVENTURES, A SECOND TRIP ABROAD AT HOMEBY JULIAN STREETCHAPTER IHad my...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 2
Author(s): National Geographic Society National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 2 published in 1889. Topics...
Idylls Of The Sea And Other Marine Sketches
Author(s): Frank Thomas Bullen In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the...
How the “Mastiffs” Went to Iceland
Author(s): Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope recounts his travel with the other passengers of the ship,...
In The Footprints Of The Padres
Author(s): Charles Warren Stoddard The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular...
Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
Author(s): Lafcadio Hearn In an introductory paragraph, Lafcadio Hearn declares his intention: “The papers composing...
Carpenter’s World Travels: France to Scandinavia
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter A travelogue through the countries of France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway...
Gringo In Mañana-Land
Author(s): Harry La Tourette Foster Foster was a World War I veteran, world wanderer, journalist,...
Little Masterpieces of Science – Explorers
Author(s): George Iles “The love of adventure, the expectation of the unexpected, have ever prompted...
Englishwoman in the Philippines
Author(s): Enid Dauncey Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband,...
Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes
Author(s): Francis Bond Head “Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until...
A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World
Author(s): James Cook Having, on his first voyage, discovered Australia, Cook still had to contend...
A Woman Who Went to Alaska
Author(s): May Kellogg Sullivan Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking...
A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, and thought
Author(s): Edward Granville Browne Edward Granville Browne (1862 – 1926), born in Stouts Hill, Uley,...
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
Author(s): Laurence Sterne After the bizarre textual antics of “Tristram Shandy”, this book would seem...
A Little Swiss Sojurn
Author(s): William Dean Howells A charming brief account of a two months’ autumnal stay on...
A Cathedral Courtship
Author(s): Kate Douglas Wiggin A romantic comedy. A pretty young American girl tours English Cathedrals,...
In the Wake of the Buccaneers
Author(s): Alpheus Hyatt Verrill Ah, the Buccaneers… “We hear much of the bold, wild ways...
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
Author(s): Wilkie Collins Two travellers, the writer of this book, and an artist friend who...
Camping in the Canadian Rockies
Author(s): Walter Dwight Wilcox An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the...
Letters of Travel
Author(s): Rudyard Kipling Three books of travel writing (between them covering the USA, Canada, Japan...