Category Archives: Travel & Geography
Description of New England
Author(s): Captain John Smith Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral...
Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea in 1846 and 1847
Author(s): John Rae After the bizarre death of Thomas Simpson, Dr. John Rae was chosen...
Journal from Japan
Author(s): Marie Stopes Marie Stopes was a highly controversial scientist and activist in her era,...
Rambles in New Zealand
Author(s): John Carne Bidwill John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent...
Canada and Newfoundland
Author(s): Frank G. Carpenter Another entry in Carpenter’s series of World Travels focusing on Canada...
Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century
Author(s): W. H. Davenport Adams The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel...
Over The Rocky Mountains To Alaska
Author(s): Charles Warren Stoddard This 1899 travelogue is by one of the era’s most popular...
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt
Author(s): R. Talbot Kelly A short travelogue of Egypt, this book was written as part...
Bohemian San Francisco
Author(s): Clarence Edgar Edwords While describing his dining experiences throughout “Bohemian San Francisco,” Clarence Edwords...
On the Trail of Don Quixote, Being a Record of Rambles in the Ancient Province of La Mancha
Author(s): August F. Jaccaci On the Trail of Don Quixote is an engaging 1890’s “record...
In a Syrian Saddle
Author(s): Ada Goodrich-Freer A travelogue that chronicles the author’s journey through Syria on horseback, considered...
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
Author(s): Ezra MeekerHoward R. Driggs This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American...
Fast in the Ice
Author(s): R. M. Ballantyne At the age of 16 Ballantyne went to Canada and was...
Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, Vol III
Author(s): Lady Hester Stanhope Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope, as related by herself in...
How I Found Livingstone
Author(s): Henry Morton Stanley Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying “Dr Livingstone,...
North-Pole Voyages
Author(s): Zachariah Atwell Mudge For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been...
Exeter
Author(s): Sidney Heath Exeter, county town of Devon, is one of England’s most historic cities...
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 2
Author(s): Jules Verne This volume, entitled “The Great Navigators of the 18th century”, forms the...
Guide to the Lakes
Author(s): Thomas West In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only...
Letters to a Friend, Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr, 1866-1879
Author(s): John Muir When John Muir was a student in the University of Wisconsin he...
In the North Woods of Maine
Author(s): Elmer Erwin Thomas Two fifteen-year-old boys—the younger of whom may have been fourteen—decide to...
Italian Hours
Author(s): Henry James A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian...
pilgrimage to my motherland. An account of a journey among the Egbas and Yorubas of Central Africa, in 1859-60
Author(s): Robert Campbell Robert Campbell (1829-84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and teacher who, along...
Little Tour in France
Author(s): Henry James A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description...
Pictures from Italy
Author(s): Charles Dickens Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels...
My Life at Sea
Author(s): William Caius Crutchley The author began his life at sea in sailing-ships, in the...
Going Abroad? Some Advice
Author(s): Robert Luce Going abroad for a holiday or business is always exciting, but we...
Ride Across the Peloponnese
Author(s): George Macmillan In the spring of 1877, a young Oscar Wilde visited Greece with...
In the Heart of Africa
Author(s): Samuel White Baker A wonderfully readable condensation of two of Baker’s earlier, longer works...
By Desert Ways to Baghdad
Author(s): Louisa Jebb Wilkins Every age witnesses the birth of some great soul. Sometimes events...