Category Archives: Travel & Geography
White Mountain Trails
Author(s): Winthrop Packard “A survey of the White Mountains of New Hampshire from a naturalist’s...
The Story of London
Author(s): Henry B. Wheatley A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to...
What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Author(s): John Hanning Speke This volume by British explorer Captain John Hanning Speke contains accounts...
With Poor Immigrants to America
Author(s): Stephen Graham Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in...
The Western United States
Author(s): Harold W. Fairbanks “In preparation of this book the author has had in mind...
The Romance of Polar Exploration
Author(s): G. Firth Scott While stories of the Polar explorers and their efforts to reach...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 06
Author(s): National Geographic Society National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to...
The Life of Columbus
Author(s): Sir Arthur Helps A factual account of the life of Christopher Columbus, from his...
The Book of the Ocean
Author(s): Ernest Ingersoll The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It...
Things Seen in Florence
Author(s): Elizabeth W. Grierson One of the largest and wealthiest cities of medieval Europe, the...
The Land of Midian (Revisited)
Author(s): Richard Francis Burton The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by...
The Sea and the Jungle
Author(s): Henry Major Tomlinson Considered one of the greatest travel narratives, The Sea and the...
The Romance of Modern Exploration
Author(s): Archibald Williams It may be thought, perhaps, that exploration must be comparatively easy today....
The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators
Author(s): Hendrik van Loon This is a story of magnificent failures. The men who equipped...
Travels in Alaska
Author(s): John Muir In 1879 John Muir went to Alaska for the first time. Its...
The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
Author(s): Agnes Edwards A delightful trip from Boston through a dozen South Shore towns to...
Stories of California
Author(s): Ella M. Sexton This is a collection of short sketches about the state of...
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
Author(s): Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical travelogue in in 1873....
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 05. May 1896
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the May Number.It includes...
Sea and Sardinia
Author(s): D. H. Lawrence A travel book describing a journey taken by Lawrence and his...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 – 03. March 1896
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It...
Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation
Author(s): Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee “The [Review of U.S. Human Space...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 09. September 1898
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, September 1898.It...
Woman’s Way Through Unknown Labrador
Author(s): Mina Benson Hubbard Mina Benson Hubbard set out in 1905 on a 576 mile...
Travels in Brazil, Volume 2
Author(s): Henry Koster A well-written and informative first-hand account of a young man’s travels within...
Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia and Laos During the Years 1858, 1859 and 1860
Author(s): Henri Mouhot Details of an expedition across Southeast Asia. Includes discussions of peoples, customs...
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Author(s): Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that...
Venice
Author(s): Mortimer MenpesDorothy Menpes Following his assignment to South Africa as Black and White Magazine’s...
Woman Who Went to Alaska
Author(s): May Kellogg Sullivan Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking...
The Amateur Emigrant
Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson In July 1879, Robert Louis Stevenson left Scotland to meet his...