Category Archives: Travel & Geography
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2
Author(s): John Lloyd Stephens The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest...
East by West, Vol. 1
Author(s): Sir Henry W. Lucy East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an...
Kamakura
Author(s): Yone Noguchi Once the most populous settlement in Japan, Kamakura is a city of...
Haunted London
Author(s): George Walter Thornbury London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 08. August 1898
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, August 1898.It...
On a Chinese Screen
Author(s): W. Somerset Maugham This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham’s observations of life in...
English Girl’s First Impressions of Burmah
Author(s): Beth Ellis An English Girl’s First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a...
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 3
Author(s): Jules Verne This volume, entitled “The great explorers of the 19th century”, forms the...
Lewis and Clark: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Author(s): William R. Lighton In the years 1804, 1805, and 1806, two men commanded an...
From Pole to Pole: A Book for Young People
Author(s): Sven Hedin This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English...
Month on the Norfolk Broads
Author(s): Walter Rye Back in the late 1880s, Walter Rye and a number of friends...
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car
Author(s): Thomas Dowler Murphy In this chronicle of a summer’s motoring in Britain I have...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 3
Author(s): National Geographic Society National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 3 published in 1889. Topics...
Mexico
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter In-depth study of the country of Mexico regarding the cities, rulers,...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 – Pathfinders of the Great Plains
Author(s): Lawrence J. Burpee This is volume 19 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This...
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.1
Author(s): Alexander von Humboldt In 1799, with extensive travel permissions from the Spanish government, Alexander...
Maw’s Vacation
Author(s): Emerson Hough Times has changed! Maw has only known hard work her whole life....
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 – 11. November 1897
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol VIII, the November...
Cape Cod
Author(s): Henry David Thoreau Cape Cod is one of several excursion books by Henry David...
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol II
Author(s): Charles Lewis MeryonLady Hester Stanhope Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by...
Europe Revised
Author(s): Irvin S. Cobb Irwin Cobb’s humorous Europe Revised is a travelogue and comedy almost...
In Quest of El Dorado
Author(s): Stephen Graham Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that...
Roughing It
Author(s): Mark Twain Roughing It is semi-autobiographical travel literature written by American humorist Mark Twain....
Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland
Author(s): John William Norie Norie’s series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a...
Mark Twain’s Letters from Hawaii
Author(s): Mark Twain By the time Mark Twain worked as a roving reporter for the...
Birdseye Views of Far Lands
Author(s): James T. Nichols Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of...
Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water
Author(s): Ethel Gwendoline Vincent Subtitled “The Journal of a Tour through the British Empire and...
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Africa
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over...
From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea
Author(s): Julius M. Price A record of a voyage of discovery and adventure, beginning in...
History of a Six Weeks’ Tour
Author(s): Percy Bysshe ShelleyMary Wollstonecraft Shelley Full titled History of a Six Weeks’ Tour through...