Category Archives: Travel & Geography
Wild Life on the Rockies
Author(s): Enos A. Mills “This book contains the record of a few of the many...
Woman’s Journey Round the World
Author(s): Ida Laura Pfeiffer Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author,...
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West
Author(s): Washington Irving Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of...
The Northward Course of Empire
Author(s): Vilhjalmur Stefansson The Northward Course of Empire was written to promote the idea of...
Travel Collection: Short Non-fiction
Author(s): Various A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated...
The History of London
Author(s): Walter Besant Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 – 05. May 1898
Author(s): National Geographic Society The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, May 1898,...
The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 1
Author(s): James Cook Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty...
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson’s adventures on...
Safar Nameh, Persian Pictures: A Book Of Travel
Author(s): Gertrude Bell Gertrude Bell traveled extensively in the Middle East in the late nineteenth...
The Turkish Embassy Letters (selection)
Author(s): Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) was an English aristocrat...
Two Years Before the Mast
Author(s): Richard Henry Dana, Jr. While there are many books upon the subject of sea...
Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy
Author(s): Ida Laura Pfeiffer Ida Pfeiffer travelled alone in an era when women didn’t travel....
Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district
Author(s): Thomas GrayJohn DaltonAdam WalkerArthur YoungThomas PennantRichard CumberlandJohn Brown A collection of some of the...
Scottish Reminiscences
Author(s): Archibald Geikie Archibald Geikie was a geologist in Scotland by profession, and a writer....
The First Voyage of James Cook Volume 2
Author(s): James Cook Following his discovery and circumnavigation of New Zealand recorded in Volume 1,...
Specimen Days
Author(s): Walt Whitman Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman’s scrap book....
California
Author(s): J. Tyrwhitt Brooks Henry Vizetelly, writing under the pseudonym J. Tyrwhitt Brooks, recalls an...
Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains
Author(s): Isabella L. Bird Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help...
Inca Lands
Author(s): Hiram Bingham Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the...
Idle Days in Patagonia
Author(s): William Henry Hudson Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon...
Greatest Wonders of the World
Author(s): Esther Singleton A selection of descriptions of famous, and not so famous, natural beauty...
California Desert Trails
Author(s): Joseph Smeaton Chase “I fell an easy prey to the beckonings of the other...
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan: First Series
Author(s): Lafcadio Hearn Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a collection of essays by Lafcadio Hearn...
History of New Brunswick
Author(s): Peter Fisher Originally published in 1825 under the title: Sketches of New Brunswick :...
Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley
Author(s): John Gilmary Shea “It has long been a desideratum to have in English the...
London Mosaic
Author(s): Walter Lionel George An idiosyncratic view of various aspects of London, England, published in...
Letters From America
Author(s): Rupert Brooke “[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United...
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
Author(s): Henry Fielding Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 1
Author(s): National Geographic Society National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics...