Exploration

A Woman's Journey Round the World

by Ida Laura Pfeiffer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated i…

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America

by Alexander Von Humboldt Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.9
In 1799, with extensive travel permissions from the Spanish government, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland departe…

Scott's Last Expedition

by Robert Falcon Scott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time.…

Captain Cook

by Walter Besant Read by Pamela Nagami 4.6
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed …

Celebrated Travels and Travellers

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Celebrated Travels and Travellers by Jules Verne invites listeners on a captivating journey through the annals of exploration. This second v…

The Frozen North

by Edith Horton Read by Laura Victoria 4.7
The Frozen North invites young listeners on an adventurous journey through the icy realms of the polar regions. This engaging audiobook pres…

The Ascent of Denali

by Hudson Stuck Read by Phil Schempf 4.4
The story of the First Ascent of Denali by Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper and Robert Tatum in 1913, recorded in celebration of …

Travels in the Interior of Africa

by Mungo Park Read by Lynda Marie Neilson 3.9
Mungo Park, a Scottish surgeon and explorer, was sent out by the 'Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior of Africa' after M…

Farthest North

by Fridtjof Nansen Read by Sharon Riskedahl 4.6
Farthest North chronicles the remarkable journey of Fridtjof Nansen and his crew aboard the ship Fram, as they venture into the uncharted Ar…

Yellowstone National Park

by Various Read by David Wales 4.8
Lost in the wilderness of The Yellowstone for over a month, nearly dying of starvation and wild animal attack, despairing of ever finding hi…

Celebrated Travels and Travellers

by Jules Verne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Celebrated Travels and Travellers by Jules Verne invites listeners on an enlightening journey through the age of exploration in the 19th cen…

A Description of New England

by Captain John Smith Read by Algy Pug 2.8
Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted fo…

Adventurers of the Far North

by Stephen Leacock Read by TriciaG 3.6
This is volume 20 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This volume describes the explorers who braved the Canadian Arctic in search of the No…

A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

by Matthew A. Henson Read by Lee Smalley 4.7
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the…

Explorers and Travellers

by Adolphus W. Greely Read by William Tomcho 4.7
“Explorers and Travellers” is a collection of short biographies of some of America’s intrepid explorers. Adolphus W. Greely writes brief but…

Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea

by John Rae Read by Phil Schempf 4.8
After the bizarre death of Thomas Simpson, Dr. John Rae was chosen to complete the survey of the Northwest Passage, linking the work of Simp…

Pathfinders of the Great Plains

by Lawrence J. Burpee Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Pathfinders of the Great Plains chronicles the daring expedition of the La Verendrye brothers as they embark on a quest to discover an overl…

True Tales of Arctic Heroism

by Adolphus W. Greely Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
The Arctic has always been a fascinating area for us. This is true today just as much as in Adolphus Greely's time. In 1912, Greely publishe…

Early explorations in New South Wales

by John Price Read by Phil Benson 3.5
In the early days of the penal colony at Sydney, rumour was rife among the convicts of another colony beyond the Blue Mountains and perhaps …

Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition

by Andrew Jackson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In 1860, Robert O'Hara Burke and his team embarked on a bold expedition to traverse the Australian continent from south to north, aiming to …

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