Category Archives: Travel & Geography
Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2
Author(s): James Cook Having disproved the myth of Terra Australis Incognita (The unknown Southern Continent),...
Thousand Miles up the Nile
Author(s): Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study...
The Worst Journey in the World, Vol 2
Author(s): Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913...
Three Years’ Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China
Author(s): Robert Fortune An account by Scottish botanist of his journey to China to discover...
The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk
Author(s): George Christopher Davies The Broads are Britain’s largest protected wetland and are home to...
South-Sea Idyls
Author(s): Charles Warren Stoddard The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books,...
The Hawaiian Archipelago
Author(s): Isabella L. Bird Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of...
The British Isles and the Baltic States
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Another in a long series by the author focusing on the...
Shores of the Polar Sea: A Narrative of the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6
Author(s): Edward Lawton Moss “THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION of 1875 left England on 29th May, crossed...
Things Seen in Venice
Author(s): Lonsdale RaggLaura Marie Ragg Venice, once among the most powerful states of the Western...
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission
Author(s): Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that...
The Mystery of Easter Island: the Story of an Expedition
Author(s): Katherine Routledge To this day, Easter Island, with its magnificent stone structures, remains an...
The Story of Sitka
Author(s): Clarence Leroy Andrews The Author recounts life in the great northwest in Sitka, Alaska...
The Alps, the Danube and the Near East
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece,...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 – 03. March 1897
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 04
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine Volume 4, articles published in 1892 and...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 07. July 1898
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, July 1898,...
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
Author(s): Theodore Roosevelt Roosevelt’s popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the...
The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known
Author(s): Joseph Jacobs This book was first published in 1897. It’s a short work, but...
The “Falcon” on the Baltic
Author(s): Edward Frederick Knight A coasting voyage boyage in a small yacht from Hammersmith in...
Syria: the Desert and the Sown
Author(s): Gertrude Bell Gertrude Bell’s Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in...
Travels in Brazil, Volume 1
Author(s): Henry Koster A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man’s travels within...
Your United States: Impressions Of A First Visit
Author(s): Arnold Bennett Enoch Arnold Bennett (1867 – 1931) was an English writer. He is...
Voyage in the ‘Sunbeam’, Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
Author(s): Anna Brassey Mrs. Brassey, (in future, Lady Brassey) describes the events and sights of...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 12. December 1896
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the December Number. It...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 10. October 1898
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, October 1898.It...
The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543
Author(s): John Leland John Leland’s ‘Itinerary’ was the product of several journeys around England and...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 04. April 1898
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, April 1898,...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 – 05. May 1897
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number. It...
The Stones of Venice, Volume 3
Author(s): John Ruskin The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and...